ATLANTA -- Jan. 26, 2016 -- A new report estimates there were 4.3 million new cancer cases and more than 2.8 million cancer deaths in China in 2015, with lung cancer the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in China.
With increasing incidence and mortality, cancer is the leading cause of death in China and is a major public health problem. But China's massive population (1.37 billion) has limited previous national incidence and mortality estimates to small samples of the population (less than 2%) using data from the 1990s or based on a specific year.
Recently, high-quality data from an additional number of population-based registries has been available through the National Central Cancer Registry of China. For the new report, Cancer Statistics in China, 2015, published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians , researchers led by Wanqing Chen, PhD, MD, of the National Cancer Center in Beijing, analyzed data from 72 local, population-based cancer registries (2009-2011), representing 6.5% of the population.
The report finds:
Article: Cancer Statistics in China, 2015, CA: Cancer J for Clin , Published early online Jan. 26, 2016 doi: 10.3322/caac.21338.
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Authors: Wanqing Chen, PhD, MD, Rongshou Zheng, MPH, Siwei Zhang, BMedSc, Hongmei Zeng, PhD, MD, Jie He, MD, National Cancer Center, Beijing, China; Peter D. Baade, PhD, Cancer Council Queensland; Freddie Bray, PhD, International Agency for Research on Cancer; Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, PhD, American Cancer Society; Xue Qin Yu, PhD, MPH, Cancer Council New South Wales, University of Sydney