Darren R Brenner, Jennifer Gillis, Alain A Demers, Larry F Ellison, Jean-Michel Billette, Shary Xinyu Zhang, JiaQi Leon Liu, Ryan R Woods, Christian Finley, Natalie Fitzgerald, Nathalie Saint-Jacques, Lorraine Shack, Donna Turner
BACKGROUND: Cancer surveillance data are essential to help understand where gaps exist and progress is being made in cancer control. We sought to summarize the expected impact of cancer in Canada in 2024, with projections of new cancer cases and deaths from cancer by sex and province or territory for all ages combined. METHODS: We obtained data on new cancer cases (i.e., incidence, 1984-2019) and deaths from cancer (i.e., mortality, 1984-2020) from the Canadian Cancer Registry and Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database, respectively...
May 12, 2024: Canadian Medical Association Journal: CMAJ