Advisory Board November 14, 2024
Cancer cases and deaths are projected to increase worldwide by 2050 but will increase the most in low- and middle-income countries that may have less access to healthcare or cancer treatments, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.
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Study details
For the study, researchers looked at data from 36 cancer types across 185 countries and territories using the Global Cancer Observatory database.
They then collected data on how many people are getting cancer and how many are dying relative to the population, adjusting the numbers to account for differences in age distributions among the population, a measure called the Mortality to Incidence Ratio.
To project how cancer...
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