Open AccessChanging profiles of cancer burden worldwide and in China: a secondary analysis of the global cancer statistics 2020
Author(s) -
Wei Cao,
Hongda Chen,
Yiwen Yu,
Ni Li,
Wanqing Chen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chinese medical journal/chinese medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 2542-5641
pISSN - 0366-6999
DOI - 10.1097/cm9.0000000000001474
Subject(s) - cancer , medicine , breast cancer , lung cancer , incidence (geometry) , mortality rate , demography , china , cause of death , liver cancer , cancer registry , causes of cancer , stomach cancer , disease , geography , physics , sociology , optics , archaeology
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, but its burden is not uniform. GLOBOCAN 2020 has newly updated the estimates of cancer burden. This study summarizes the most recent changing profiles of cancer burden worldwide and in China and compares the cancer data of China with those of other regions.