Pancreatic Cancer Prevalence Worldwide

Of the 18 million cancer diagnoses predicted worldwide in 2018 nearly half a million will be pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer prevalence worldwide. Global regional and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural environmental and occupational and. The international agency for research on cancer iarc released new global cancer statistics on sept. It is slightly more common in men than in women. References 1 ferlay j soerjomataram i ervik m dikshit r eser s mathers c et al.

Pancreatic cancer is the 12th most commonly occurring cancer in men and the 11th most commonly occurring cancer in women. Global patterns and trends in pancreatic cancer incidence. Pancreatic cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. About 57 600 people 30 400 men and 27 200 women will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

The continuous update project panel judged there is strong evidence that greater body fatness and greater adult attained height. International agency for research on cancer. 2 gbd 2015 risk factors collaborators. If the cancer has spread to surrounding tissues or organs the 5 year survival rate is 12.

2 department of public health shantou university medical college shantou china. Age period and birth cohort analysis. There were 460 000 new cases in 2018. Pancreatic cancer was estimated as the seventh leading cause of cancer death in both sexes worldwide in 2018 on the basis of the global cancer incidence mortality and prevalence 2018 estimates from 185 countries using subregional rather than national data.

The top 20 countries with the highest rates of pancreatic cancer in 2018 are given in the tables below. It is important to remember that statistics on the survival rates for people with pancreatic cancer are an estimate. The term prevalence of pancreatic cancer usually refers to the estimated population of people who are managing pancreatic cancer at any given time. Luo g zhang y 1 guo p 2 ji h 2 xiao y 2 li k 2.

Reasons for vast differences in mortality rates of pancreatic cancer are not completely clear yet but it may be due to lack of appropriate diagnosis treatment and cataloging of cancer cases. Globocan 2012 v1 0 cancer incidence and mortality worldwide. For the 53 of people who are diagnosed after the cancer has spread to a distant part of the body the 5 year survival rate is 3. However its toll is higher in more developed countries.

1 department of medical statistics and epidemiology school of public health sun yat sen university guangzhou and. Worldwide 1 billion adults currently smoke cigarettes. Pancreatic cancer accounts for about 3 of all cancers in the us and about 7 of all cancer deaths. Prevalence of different risk factors varies by region and country this is partly why overall cancer incidence rates and the most common types of cancer also vary by region and country.