Table 2.
New cancer cases and death for different types of cancer in Pakistan (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 | 23,220 | 14.87 | 21,077 | 18.08 |
| Leukemia | 8,305 | 4.7l | 6,261 | 5.3 |
| Melanoma of skin | 502 | 0.28 | 290 | 0.25 |
| Brain/Nervous system | 4,770 | 2.7 | 3,934 | 3.4 |
| Pulmonary tract cancer | 19,008 | 10.61 | 14,488 | 12.31 |
| Genitourinary | 25,241 | 11.35 | 11,026 | 9.46 |
| Liver Cancer and Gallbladder | 8,372 | 4.7 | 7,739 | 6.6 |
| Mouth/Oral cavity cancer | 20,620 | 10.01 | 11,761 | 10.07 |
| Breast cancer | 25,928 | 14.5 | 13,725 | 11.7 |
| Multiple myeloma | 1,978 | 1.1 | 1,726 | 1.5 |
| Mesothelioma | 41 | 0.02 | 34 | 0.03 |
| Non and Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) | 8,305 | 4.63 | 4,550 | 4.36 |
| Mesothelioma | 41 | 0.02 | 34 | 0.03 |
| Kaposi sarcoma | 77 | 0.04 | 51 | 0.04 |
| Others | 31,980 | – | 20,453 | |
| Sum of all sites | 178,388 | – | 117,149 | – |