Table 5.

List of cancers with the highest morality rate from the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) 2018

Cancer	Mortality (million)					Risk 0–74 years (%)			Death rate (%)
	Total	Men	Women	Ratio	Age-standardized	Total	Men	Women
All cancers	9.555	5.386	4.169	1.29	101.1	10.63	12.71	8.7	53
Lung (and trachea and bronchus)	1.761	1.185	0.576	2.06	18.6	2.22	3.19	1.32	84
Liver (and intrahepatic bile ducts)	0.781	0.548	0.233	2.35	8.5	0.98	1.46	0.53	93
Stomach	0.783	0.513	0.269	1.91	8.2	0.95	1.36	0.57	76
Breast	0.627	–	0.627	–	13.0	–	–	1.41	30
Colon	0.551	0.290	0.261	1.11	5.4	0.54	0.66	0.44	50
Esophagus	0.509	0.357	0.151	2.36	5.5	0.67	1.00	0.36	89
Pancreas	0.432	0.227	0.205	1.11	4.4	0.50	0.59	0.41	94
Thyroid	0.411	0.156	0.255	0.61	0.42	0.05	0.04	0.05	7
Prostate	0.359	0.359	–	–	7.6	–	0.60	–	28
Cervix uteri	0.311	–	0.311	–	6.9	–	–	0.77	55
Rectum	0.310	0.184	0.126	1.46	3.2	0.35	0.46	0.26	44
Leukemia	0.309	0.180	0.129	1.39	3.5	0.33	0.40	0.26	71
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	0.249	0.146	0.103	1.42	2.6	0.27	0.35	0.21	49
Bladder	0.200	0.148	0.052	2.87	1.9	0.18	0.29	0.08	36
Kidney	0.175	0.114	0.061	1.86	1.8	0.20	0.28	0.12	43