Global cancer prevalence is growing at "alarming pace," says WHO

The worldwide burden of cancer is growing at an “alarming pace,” and treatment alone is not the way to prevent a cancer crisis, a major report into the worldwide prevalence of the disease has warned.1 The World Cancer Report 2014 , published by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, said that in 2012 the global incidence of cancer rose to an estimated 14 million new cases, a figure expected to rise to an annual 19.3 million by 2025. The world’s commonest cancer is lung cancer, making up 13% of the total number in 2012, followed by breast cancer (11.9%), colorectal cancer (9.7%), and prostate cancer (7.9%). Among men lung cancer is the most common (16.7% of …