The World Health Organization’s cancer agency warned there will be 22 million new cases of cancer each year within two decades, as the burden of the disease falls disproportionately on developing countries.
There were probably 14 million new cases of cancer in 2012, the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer said today in its World Cancer Report 2014. The most common were lung, breast and bowel tumors, representing 13 percent, 11.9 percent and 9.7 percent of cases, respectively. Lung cancer was also the most common cause of death from any malignancy, accounting for 19.4 percent of an estimated 8.2 million fatalities.
