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. 2022 Jul 22;9:940514. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.940514

Table 1.

New cases and deaths for different types of cancer worldwide. (Data have been acquired from Global Cancer Statistics 2020).

Cancer type New cases (% of all sites) Death (% of all sites)
Number %age Number %age
Gastrointestinal 3,573,928 18.5 2,228,749 22.4
Leukemia 474,519 2.5 311,594 3.1
Melanoma of skin 1,198,073 6.2 63,731 0.6
Brain/Nervous system 308,102 1.0 99,840 1.0
Pulmonary cancer 2,707,406 14.7 2,019,937 20.3
Genitourinary 4,017,064 21 1,548,189 15.6
Liver cancer 1,401,450 7.3 1,296,183 13
Mouth/Oral cavity cancer 431,296 2.3 167,235 2.0
Breast cancer 2,261,419 11.7 684,996 6.9
Multiple myeloma 176,404 0.9 117,077 1.2
Mesothelioma 30,870 0.2 26,278 0.3
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) 83,087 0.4 23,376 0.2
Mesothelioma 30,870 0.2 26,278 0.3
Kaposi sarcoma 34,270 0.2 15,086 0.2
Others 2,564,031 1,329,584
Sum of all sites 19,292,789 9,958,133