The Global Burden of Cancer 2013

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Abstract

Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Current estimates of cancer burden in individual countries and regions are necessary to inform local cancer control strategies.

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Journal

Title: JAMA Oncology

Abbreviated Title: JAMA Oncol

Publisher: American Medical Association (AMA)

ISSN (Print): 2374-2437

Publication date Created: July 01 2015

Publication date (Print): July 01 2015

Volume: 1

Issue: 4

Page: 505

Affiliations

[1 ]Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle2Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle

[2 ]Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle

[3 ]Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle3Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

[4 ]King’s College London, London, England

[5 ]Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain

[6 ]University of North Texas, Denton

[7 ]Institute of Medical Sociology and Social Medicine, Marburg, Germany

[8 ]Agence de Medecine Preventive, Paris, France

[9 ]Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

[10 ]Liver Disease and Hepatitis Program, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska

[11 ]College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York

[12 ]Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

[13 ]Imperial College London, London, England

[14 ]Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

[15 ]Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany, Rensselaer, New York

[16 ]Laboratório de Farmacognosia, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, University do Porto, REQUIMTE/LAQV, Porto, Portugal

[17 ]School of Public Health, Hunter College Campus, City University of New York, New York

[18 ]University of California, San Francisco

[19 ]Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

[20 ]Federal Environment Agency Section on Exposure Assessment and Environmental Health Indicators, Berlin, Germany

[21 ]Department of Internal Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria

[22 ]Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York

[23 ]Faculty of Chinese Medicine, Southern University College, Johor, Malaysia

[24 ]Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

[25 ]University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[26 ]Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, South Korea

[27 ]Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance, Spanish Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency (AEMPS), Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain

[28 ]University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[29 ]School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[30 ]Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

[31 ]Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

[32 ]Centre for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

[33 ]Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

[34 ]Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

[35 ]University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

[36 ]Department of Ophthalmology, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

[37 ]Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio38Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Chicago Medical School at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, Illinois

[38 ]Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

[39 ]Department of Global and Community Health, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

[40 ]Department of Environmental Epidemiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan

[41 ]College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

[42 ]Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy

[43 ]Azienda Ospedaliera papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy

[44 ]University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

[45 ]Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands

[46 ]Centre for Applied Biostatistics, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden48School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

[47 ]Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts

[48 ]Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

[49 ]National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodira, Japan

[50 ]University of Arizona, Tucson

[51 ]The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

[52 ]Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[53 ]Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

[54 ]School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Perth, Australia

[55 ]Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

[56 ]Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, England

[57 ]Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

[58 ]Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver61Department of Dermatology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver

[59 ]University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia63Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

[60 ]National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

[61 ]International Foundation for Dermatology, London, England

[62 ]Centre of Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

[63 ]University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

[64 ]Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran

[65 ]Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

[66 ]Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

[67 ]Air Health Science Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

[68 ]College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

[69 ]Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

[70 ]Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England75University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

[71 ]Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

[72 ]UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland

[73 ]Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

[74 ]Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

[75 ]National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

[76 ]Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, England

[77 ]School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

[78 ]College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

[79 ]Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

[80 ]Windsor, Ontario, Canada

[81 ]Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, Melbourne, Australia

[82 ]Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

[83 ]Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

[84 ]Mario Negri Institute for pharmacological Research, Ranica, Italy

[85 ]Arak University of Medical Sciences and Health Affairs, Arak, Iran

[86 ]University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England

[87 ]University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

[88 ]Public Health Foundation of India, National Capital Region, India

[89 ]Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

[90 ]University of the Philippines Manila, College of Public Health, Manila, Philippines

[91 ]Colombian National Health Observatory Instituto Nacional de Salud, Bogota, Colombia

[92 ]National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

[93 ]Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

[94 ]Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea

[95 ]School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia100Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, England

[96 ]Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway102University of Bergen, Stavanger, Norway

[97 ]Department of Clinical Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

[98 ]National Centre for Diseases Control and Public Health, Tbilisi, Georgia

[99 ]University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England

[100 ]Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico

[101 ]Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Mumbai, India

[102 ]University College London, London, England

[103 ]Genentech Inc, San Francisco, California

[104 ]Indian Institute of Public Health, National Capital Region, India

[105 ]Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Selangor, Malaysia

[106 ]Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle93Public Health Foundation of India, National Capital Region, India

[107 ]Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway113Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway

[108 ]Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle115National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico

[109 ]School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Article

DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.0735

PMC ID: 4500822

PubMed ID: 26181261

SO-VID: c6a6117d-7fd4-4059-be8c-8e3e8efe89e7

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