Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
2014/09/13 by Jacques Ferlay, Isabelle Soerjomataram, Rajesh Dikshit +7 · 29,105 citations
Medicine · #Breast cancer #Cancer #Cancer incidence #Cancer registry #Cause of death #Causes of cancer #Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection #Colorectal cancer #Demography #Disease #Global Cancer Incidence and Screening #Incidence (geometry) #Internal medicine #International agency #Lung cancer #Medicine #Mortality rate #Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers #Oncology #Stomach cancer
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/ijc.29210
published in International Journal of Cancer 136(5), E359-86 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2014/09/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract
Estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 27 major cancers and for all cancers combined for 2012 are now available in the GLOBOCAN series of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. We review the sources and methods used in compiling the national cancer incidence and mortality estimates, and briefly describe the key results by cancer site and in 20 large "areas" of the world. Overall, there were 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths in 2012. The most commonly diagnosed cancers were lung (1.82 million), breast (1.67 million), and colorectal (1.36 million); the most common causes of cancer death were lung cancer (1.6 million deaths), liver cancer (745,000 deaths), and stomach cancer (723,000 deaths).
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