Burden of Cancer Worldwide
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 3158
Special Issue Editors
Interests: epidemiology; public policy; social inequalities; cancer mortality and morbidity levels and trends; cancer transition; population-attributable fractions (PAF) for a combination of cancer risk
Interests: epidemiology; public policy; social inequalities; poverty; mortality; levels and trends; epidemiological transition and health transition; causes of death and its changes over long periods; inequality in the population's morbidity and mortality; cancer mortality and morbidity; life expectancy and longevity
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Interests: epidemiology; public policy; social inequalities; poverty; systematic review with meta-analysis; population-attributable fractions (PAF) for a combination of cancer risk; nutritional transition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High cancer incidence rates are estimated for the coming decades, a worrying situation requiring significant investment in prevention, control, and treatment. This profile is due to greater exposure to environmental risk factors, population aging, and changes in reproductive behavior. Neoplasms have a high burden worldwide, with differences in incidence and mortality rates between countries. Cancers associated with infectious agents have a high incidence and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. On the other hand, in high-income countries, there is a greater burden of cancers associated with changes in reproductive behavior, the Westernization of habits, and lifestyle, a phenomenon classified as cancer transition. Inequalities in cancer survival between countries are also noteworthy due to better access to early diagnosis, timely treatment, and high-cost therapeutic innovations in high-income countries. These inequities are also observed at the subnational level, reflecting differences in the demographic and epidemiological transition process and inequalities in access to health services. This Special Issue, "Burden of Cancer Worldwide," seeks to explore differences in incidence, mortality, survival, access to cancer care, exposure to risk, and protective factors (individual, environmental, and contextual) across countries and at the subnational level.
Dr. Karina Cardoso Meira
Dr. Raphael Mendonça Guimarães
Dr. Nathalia Sernizon Guimarães
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mortality
- morbidity
- burden of cancer
- social determinants of health
- population-attributable fractions
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