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The International Agency for Research on Cancer points out that tobacco, alcohol, obesity and air pollution are important factors in this increase.
Worrying forecasts. Some 35 million new cases of cancer are expected to be detected in 2050, or 77% more than in 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) agency specializing in this disease said on Thursday.
“The rapid increase in the global burden of cancer reflects both population aging and growth, as well as changes in people’s exposure to risk factors,” according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC).
The latter cites tobacco, alcohol, obesity and air pollution as “key factors in the increase in incidence”.
Asia particularly affected
The agency specializing in this disease, the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer), estimates the number of cancers diagnosed worldwide at 19.96 million in 2022.
According to data from 185 countries, the IARC anticipates an increase of 50% in the annual number of new cases diagnosed between 2022 and 2040 (around 30 million), and of 77% between 2022 and 2050 (35 million anticipated).
On average, one in five people will develop cancer during their lifetime, anticipates Doctor Freddie Bray, head of the IARC cancer surveillance unit.
According to the American institute IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation), in 2019 the number of cancers in the world showed an increase of more than 25% over the decade.
Asia concentrates almost half of the cases detected in 2022 according to the IARC (9.8 million), a logical figure if we consider that more than half of the world’s population lives in this region.
Less logical in view of the demographic weight, Europe (in the broad sense, Russia included) alone concentrates almost a quarter of diagnoses (4.5 million).
