Between 1990-2019, the global incidence of early-onset cancer increased by 79.1 percent. During the same period, the number of early-onset cancer deaths increased by 27.7 percent.
This is what a 2023 study published in the BMJ Oncology journal suggests. The study also goes on to say,
It’s not just one study that points to this increasing global burden though. Another study from 2023, published in JAMA Network Open, established the increased rate of early-onset cancer between 2010-2019.
It highlighted that while breast cancer had the highest number of incident cases, gastrointestinal cancers had the fastest-growing incidence rates among all early-onset cancers.
According to World Cancer Research Fund International, in 2020, there were 18.1 million active cancer cases globally.
Over half of these cases were found in men – 9.3 million cases. 8.8 million women had been diagnosed with cancer in the year.
In the same year, cancer was also the leading cause of deaths globally, having…