Global cancer cases to rise by more than 75% by 2050, WHO predicts

Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, accounting for 12.4% of new cases and 18.7% of deaths.

Global cancer cases are predicted to rise by more than 75% by 2050, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Latest figures from the WHO’s cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, makes plain the growing burden of cancer, rising from 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths worldwide in 2012 to 20 million new cases and 9.7 million deaths a decade later.