Table 2.

New and prevalent maternal orphans in 2020 due to cancer deaths by 14 major cancers and the rest of the cancers (by total number, number per 100 cancer deaths in women, number per 100,000 children and the ages of orphans)

	Cancer deaths in women in 2020 (all ages)		New maternal orphans due to cancer in 2020							Prevalent maternal orphans due to cancer in 2020
	No.	Average age at cancer death (years)a	No.	Percent of total	No. per 100 cancer deaths in women	No. per 100,000 children	Age distribution (years, row %)			No.	Percent of total	No. per 100,000 children	Age distribution (years, row %)
							<5	5–9	10–17				<5	5–9	10–17
All cancer deaths	4,404,419	56	1,047,178	100	24	40	11	21	68	7,048,905	100	272	4	16	79
By cancer-related death
Breast	682,288	55	257,561	24.6	38	9.9	11	22	67	1,724,459	24.5	66.6	4.2	16.4	79.4
Cervical	340,841	53	209,857	20.0	62	8.1	11	21	68	1,392,226	19.8	53.7	4.1	16.1	79.8
Upper gastrointestinal	955,243	58	135,962	13.0	14	5.2	9	19	72	841,825	11.9	32.5	3.7	14.8	81.5
Hematological	305,860	53	81,879	7.8	27	3.2	16	24	59	657,219	9.3	25.4	5.7	19.2	75.1
Other female-specific	328,930	57	63,054	6.0	19	2.4	9	19	72	395,339	5.6	15.3	3.8	15.1	81.1
Lower gastrointestinal	415,944	58	53,172	5.1	13	2.1	11	21	69	347,937	4.9	13.4	4.1	16	79.8
Respiratory	610,696	60	50,580	4.8	8	2.0	7	16	77	280,060	4.0	10.8	3.1	13.1	83.9
Brain and nervous system	112,711	53	34,704	3.3	31	1.3	15	23	62	265,564	3.8	10.3	5.3	18.3	76.4
Head and Neck	112,849	56	34,643	3.3	31	1.3	11	20	69	232,844	3.3	9.0	4.1	15.6	80.3
Genitourinary	116,709	59	12,750	1.2	11	0.5	11	20	69	82,075	1.2	3.2	4.2	16.1	79.7
Skin cancer	50,598	56	9,355	0.9	18	0.4	11	21	69	78,360	1.1	3.0	7.1	22.7	70.2
Kaposi Sarcoma	5,149	37	9,009	0.9	175	0.3	22	30	48	62,205	0.9	2.4	4.1	16	79.8
Thyroid	27,657	57	5,171	0.5	19	0.2	12	21	67	35,859	0.5	1.4	4.6	16.9	78.4
Other	338,944	54	89,482	8.5	26.4	3.5	14	23	63	652,934	9.3	25.2	5.2	18.1	76.7

^aAmong cancer deaths at ages 15–69 years. The children of women above these ages were adults in 2020.