Abstract
Commentary on GBD 2019 Cancer Risk Factors Collaborators (2022). The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010-19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. The Lancet, 400(10352):563-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01438-6.
The growing global burden of cancer is rapidly exceeding the current cancer control capacity. More than 19 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2020 worldwide, and 10 million people died of cancer. By 2040, that burden is expected to increase to around 30 million new cancer cases annually and 16 million deaths from cancer according to the Global Cancer Observatory. In The Lancet, the Global Burden of Disease Study collaborators report on their effort to examine the relationship between indicators of metabolic, occupational, environmental, and behavioural risk factors, and cancers globally.