Global Rates of Liver Cancer Could Rise by More Than 50 Percent by 2040
Primary liver cancer was among the top three causes of cancer death in 46 countries in 2020, and the number of people diagnosed with or dying from primary liver cancer per year could rise by more than 55 percent by 2040, according to a new global analysis. To avoid this increase, countries need to lower the annual rate of liver cancer incidence and death by at least 3 percent, according to the findings, published on October 5 in the Journal of Hepatology.“Liver cancer causes a huge burden of disease globally each year,” senior author Isabelle Soerjomataram, MD, PhD, deputy branch head of cancer surveillance for the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, said in a release. “It is also largely preventable if control efforts are…