Oncology

Cancer is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and one in every seven deaths is due to cancer. It has the worst incidence and mortality statistics. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an estimated 14.1 million new cases of cancer occur with mortality of 8.2 million worldwide. There are more than 100 types of cancer. Here, in this article, statistical insight is shed on few of the major cancers viz.  lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer and prostate cancer. Lung cancer is one of the wide spread cancer, World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that there were an estimated 1.8 million new cases f...