Current cancer situation in China: good or bad news from the 2018 Global Cancer Statistics?
Current cancer situation in China: good or bad news from the 2018 Global Cancer Statistics?
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DOI:
10.1186/s40880-019-0368-6
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发表时间:
2019-04-29
影响因子:
16.2
通讯作者:
Xu, Rui-Hua
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作者:
Feng, Rui-Mei;Zong, Yi-Nan;Xu, Rui-Hua
Cancer is the leading cause of death in China and depicting the cancer pattern of China would provide basic knowhows on how to tackle it more effectively. In this study we have reviewed several reports of cancer burden, including the Global cancer statistics 2018 and Cancer statistics in China, 2015, along with the GLOBCAN 2018 online database, to investigate the differences of cancer patterns between China, the United States (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK). An estimated 4.3 million new cancer cases and 2.9 million new cancer deaths occurred in China in 2018. Compared to the USA and UK, China has lower cancer incidence but a 30% and 40% higher cancer mortality than the UK and USA, among which 36.4% of the cancer-related deaths were from the digestive tract cancers (stomach, liver, and esophagus cancer) and have relatively poorer prognoses. In comparison, the digestive cancer deaths only took up