Scientists revealed countries with the highest and lowest levels of cancer, where most dead occurred. In the biggest ever study of 195 countries, researchers produced top ten tables for the best and worst performing countries for 29 types of cancer.

Australia has the highest overall level of new cases of cancer, based on figures from 2016, while Mongolia has the most deaths.

War-torn Syria has both the fewest number of new cases and the lowest number of deaths of all the countries.
Lung, bowel and breast cancer are the most common forms of the disease worldwide, while lung, bowel and stomach are the biggest killers.

Experts say the number of cancers caused by lifestyle factors such as smoking and an unhealthy diet is on the rise, but there is ‘substantial potential’ for preventing them

In 2016 there were 17.2 million cancer cases worldwide – 28% more than there were in 2006 – and 8.9 million deaths from the disease

MOST NEW CANCER CASES PER 100,000 PEOPLE IN 2016


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