Each chart retains the same ordering of cancer sites based on descending order of magnitude of the cancer-specific incidence rates in the U.S. Source: Global Cancer Observatory (Cancer Today). Available from: https://gco.iarc.fr/today, accessed January 30, 2024. The charts highlight the similarity in profiles in the U.S. and the EU-27 with respect to the incidence of common cancers, the ubiquitous importance of female breast cancer in all four countries/areas, and the relatively high and low rates of prostate and lung cancer, respectively, in Sub-Saharan Africa, and vice versa in China.
World standard population used is that of Doll et al, Cancer Incidence in Five Continents: A Technical Report (1966). Countries/areas defined by the United Nations Statistical Division’s Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/).
