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 |