As the world ages, cancer cases are projected to rise, hitting some countries like ‘a tidal wave’ – CTV
April 5, 2024
Around the world each year, tens of millions of people are told they have cancer, and millions die from the disease. Now, a report from the American Cancer Society projects that by 2050, the number of people with cancer could rise 77 per cent.
The report, published Thursday in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, found that in 2022 – the most recent year for which data was available – about 20 million cases of cancer were diagnosed alongside 9.7 million deaths from cancer.
Those estimates suggest that about 1 in 5 people who are alive nowwill develop cancer in their lifetime, and around 1 in 9 men and 1 in 12 women will die from the disease.
When it comes to the number of cases around the world, “we think that number will go up to 35 million by 2050, largely due to an increasing population in the aging population,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society.
