Cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2022

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Background: The National Cancer Center (NCC) of China regularly reports the nationwide statistics on cancer incidence and mortality in China. Sustained implementation of prevention and control measures has resulted in significant reductions in the incidence and mortality rates of certain historically high incidence cancers, such as esophageal, stomach and liver cancers.

🔑 Key Findings

• The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) calculates and publishes the cancer burden of countries around the world every two years.
• To ensure consistency between the actual surveillance data in China and the data published by IARC, NCC has received approval from the National Health Commission and IARC to simultaneously release the cancer burden data for China in GLOBOCAN 2022.
• Methods: There were a total of 700 registries reporting high-quality data on cancer incidence and mortality across China in 2018, of which 106 registries with continuous monitoring from 2010 to 2018 were used to establish an age-period-cohort model to simulate the trend of cancer incidence and mortality and to estimate the incidence and mortality in China in 2022.

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