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Data on specific cancers

This section presents the top 20 countries with the highest age-standardised rates for the eight most common cancers worldwide.

Feature on Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is the 13th most common cancer in the world, with 280,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008. The updated SLR and report from the Continuous Update Project on pancreatic cancer has been published.

Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world, with 1.61 million new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer, with 1.38 million new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer, with 1.23 million new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Stomach cancer is the fourth most common cancer, with 989,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Prostate cancer is the fifth most common cancer, with 899,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, with 750,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Cervical cancer is the seventh most common cancer, with 530,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Oesophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer, with 482,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008.

Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer, with 383,000 diagnosed in 2008.

Here we feature less common cancers. Kidney cancer is the 14th most common cancer, with 274,000 new cases diagnosed in 2008.