YOGYAKARTA On the commemoration of World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) shared a list of the most common types of cancer in the world.
According to WHO, cancer is one of the main causes of global death. By 2022, there will be around 20 million new cancer cases in the world and 9.7 million cancer deaths. This figure is predicted to increase by around 77 percent by 2050, which will further burden the health system, society and community.
Adapting the official WHO website, globally, the most common cancers experienced by the public are lung cancer, breasts, large intestines, and rectum, as well as prostate cancer. Here's the full explanation:
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the most common type of cancer in the world. WHO data shows there are about 2.5 million new cases or 12.4 percent of the total new cancer cases by 2022.
In addition, lung cancer is also the main cause of cancer death. Around 18.7 percent (1.8 million) cancer deaths are caused by lung cancer.
Quoting the Mayo Clinic page, active smokers are more at risk of developing lung cancer. The risk will increase over the length of time and the number of cigarettes smoked.
The symptoms of lung cancer that need to be considered are:
Breast Cancer
The most common type of cancer in the world is breast cancer. This disease accounts for 2.3 million cases or about 11.6 percent of new cancer cases by 2022.
Breast cancer is also ranked fourth as the cause of cancer. A total of 670,000 cases (7.8 percent) of death from cancer are caused by breast cancer.
Quoted from AI-Care, the symptoms of breast cancer that need to be watched out for, such as:
Big Usus Cancer And Rectum
Large intestinal cancer and rectum, also known as colorectal cancer, are the third-largest occurrences of cancer, with 1.9 million new cases and 900 thousand deaths by 2022.
There are factors that can increase the risk of someone suffering from colorectal cancer, including:
Prostate Cancer
In 2022, there will be 1.4 million new prostate cancer cases in the world. This figure is equivalent to 7.3 percent of the total new cancer cases as a whole. This makes prostate cancer the fourth position in the list of most types of cancer in the world.
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Prostate cancer generally shows no symptoms in the early stages. Patients usually only experience complaints when cancer is big enough to put pressure on the bladder. Some of the complaints that may be experienced by prostate cancer sufferers, namely:
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