The national incidence of malignant tumors is 270.59 per 100,000, 590,000 people die of lung cancer each year.

4 February is World Cancer Day. According to the latest figures released by the National Cancer Center, the incidence of malignant neoplasms in the country is 270.59 per 100,000 and the mortality rate is 163.83 per 100,000. The number one cause of malignant cancer in the country is lung cancer, which kills about 591,000 people each year.Chen Wanqing, deputy director of the National Cancer Registration Center of
, said Thursday that according to the 2016 National Cancer Registry's registration data for all registries nationwide, the National Cancer Center recently released the "2013 China's Malignant Tumor Incidence and Death Analysis" report. The report shows that there were about 3.682 million new cases of malignant neoplasms and 2.229 million deaths in 2013. Lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, female breast cancer, esophageal cancer accounted for about 66% of all new cases of cancer;
lung cancer is the number one killer of cancer. The report shows that the country's incidence of malignant tumors is the first lung cancer, about 733,000 new cases per year, of which 489,000 are men, the country's first malignant tumor death is lung cancer, the annual death rate of about 591,000, of which about 402,000 men.
Chen Wanqing said on the 4th that the incidence and mortality rate of malignant tumors in 2013 was basically the same as in 2012, with male morbidity relatively higher than that of women. In addition, the incidence of thyroid cancer in women is about 108,000, the upward trend is obvious, ranking 5th in the incidence of malignant tumors in women, the annual incidence of nearly 20% in the past 10 years;
malignant tumor is a serious threat to human health and social development. According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, 8.8 million people die each year from cancer, accounting for nearly a half of the world's total annual deaths. Chen Wanqing introduced that in recent years, the incidence of malignant tumors in the world as a whole is increasing trend. In 184 countries and regions, the incidence of malignant tumors in China is generally in the upper-middle level, the number of cases accounted for about 21.8% of the world. With the aging of the population and the social and economic development, the process of industrialization and urbanization has accelerated, environmental factors and lifestyles have been changing, china's cancer prevention and control situation is serious.
2017, World Cancer Day, promoted by the International Alliance against Cancer, is the theme "We can, I can beat cancer". World Cancer Day's website presents six cancer risk factors: smoking, alcohol consumption, environment, unhealthy diet, inactivity and carcinogenic factors.
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