• Medicine
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  CA: a cancer journal for…
  2018
• DOI:10.3322/caac.21492

Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries.

@article{Bray2018GlobalCS,
  title={Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries.},
  author={Freddie Bray and Jacques Ferlay and Isabelle Soerjomataram and Rebecca L Siegel and Lindsey A. Torre and Ahmedin Jemal},
  journal={CA: a cancer journal for clinicians},
  year={2018},
  volume={68 6},
  pages={
          394-424
        }
}

• Freddie Bray, Jacques Ferlay, +3 authors Ahmedin Jemal

This article provides a status report on the global burden of cancer worldwide using the GLOBOCAN 2018 estimates of cancer incidence and mortality produced by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, with a focus on geographic variability across 20 world regions. There will be an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases (17.0 million excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) and 9.6 million cancer deaths (9.5 million excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) in 2018. In both sexes combined, lung… CONTINUE READING

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