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most frequent cancers Lung Cervix uteri Cervix uteri Lip , oral cavity Breast Breast Other pharynx Ovary Lip , oral cavity Oesophagus Lip , oral cavity Lung Stomach Oesophagus Oesophagus

@inproceedings{Behera2012mostFC,
  title={most frequent cancers Lung Cervix uteri Cervix uteri Lip , oral cavity Breast Breast Other pharynx Ovary Lip , oral cavity Oesophagus Lip , oral cavity Lung Stomach Oesophagus Oesophagus},
  author={D Behera},
  year={2012}
}

• D. Behera
• Published 2012
• Medicine

In the beginning of the century, lung cancer was considered to be rare.1 But now it has reached epidemic proportions. This is the leading cause of cancer death in developed countries and is rising in alarming rates in developing countries.2 Estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 27 cancers in 2008 have been prepared for 182 countries as part of the GLOBOCAN series published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer recent. Results for 20 world regions, summarizing the global patterns for the eight most common cancers have been made in this report. Overall, an estimated 12.7 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths occurred in 2008, with 56% of new cancer cases and 63% of the cancer deaths occurring in the less developed regions of the world. The most commonly diagnosed cancers worldwide are lung (1.61 million, 12.7% of the total), breast (1.38 million, 10.9%) and colorectal cancers (1.23 million, 9.7%). The most common causes of cancer death are lung cancer (1.38 million, 18.2% of the total), stomach cancer (738,000 deaths, 9.7%) and liver cancer (696,000 deaths, 9.2%). Cancer is neither rare anywhere in the world, nor mainly confined to high-resource countries. Striking differences in the patterns of cancer from region to region are observed.3 5-year survival rate for lung cancer has improved only marginally from 5% in the late 1950s to 14% by 1994. This is in contrast to the 5 years survival of 52% in other cancers.4,5