Worldwide cancer statistics of adults over 75 years old in 2019: a systematic analysis of the global burden of disease study 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Cancer has become one of the major killers of humanity due to the number of people over the age of 75 increasing with population ageing. The aim of this study was to analyse the incidence and mortality rates in people over 75 of 29 cancer types in 204 countries and regions, as well as the trends from 1990 to 2019.

Methods

Twenty-nine cancer types were collected from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 database( https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/ ). We collected global cancer data for 2019 in terms of sex, age, sociodemographic index (SDI), region, etc. The estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) was calculated to assess the trend of the cancer incidence and mortality rate from 1990 to 2019.

Results

In 2019, the number of new cancer

SUBMITTER: Xiang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9617321 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature