Ranking of cancer by number of deaths in 2018
Data extracted from the WHO GLOBOCAN 2018
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| Rank |
Cancer |
Number of deaths (x103) |
| 1 | Lung | 1761.0 |
| 2 | Colorectal | 861.7 |
| 3 | Stomach | 782.7 |
| 4 | Liver | 781.6 |
| 5 | Breast | 626.7 |
| 6 | Esophageal | 508.6 |
| 7 | Head and neck | 453.3 |
| 8 | Pancreatic | 432.2 |
| 9 | Prostate | 359.0 |
| 10 | Cervical | 311.4 |
| 11 | Leukemia | 309.0 |
| 12 | Non-Hodgkin | 248.7 |
| 13 | Brain | 241.0 |
| 14 | Bladder | 199.9 |
| 15 | Ovarian | 184.8 |
| 16 | Kidney | 175.1 |
| 17 | Gallbladder | 165.1 |
| 18 | Multiple myeloma | 106.1 |
| 19 | Uterine | 89.9 |
| 20 | Skin | 65.2 |
| 21 | Melanoma | 60.7 |
| 22 | Thyroid | 41.1 |
| 23 | Hodgkin's | 26.2 |
| 24 | Mesothelioma | 25.6 |