A global assessment of recent trends in gastrointestinal cancer and lifestyle-associated risk factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers were responsible for 26.3% of cancer cases and 35.4% of deaths worldwide in 2018. This study aimed to analyze the global incidence, mortality, prevalence, and contributing risk factors of the 6 major GI cancer entities [esophageal cancer (EC), gastric cancer (GC), liver cancer (LC), pancreatic cancer (PC), colon cancer, and rectal cancer].

Methods

Using the Global Cancer Observatory and the Global Health Observatory databases, we reviewed the current GI cancer incidence, prevalence, and mortality, analyzed the association of GI cancer prevalence with national human development indices (HDIs), identified the contributing risk factors, and estimated developing age- and sex-specific trends in incidence and mortality.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Lu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8626600 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature