Over the last century, lung cancer from the rarest of diseases became the biggest cancer
killer of men worldwide and in some parts of the world also of women (North America, East …

52 Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies 64 Protect people from tobacco smoke 70
Offer help to quit tobacco use 76 Warn about the dangers of tobacco 76 Health warning …

Background The contribution of modifiable risk factors to the increasing global and regional
burden of stroke is unclear, but knowledge about this contribution is crucial for informing …

Background Cancer mortality rates, though not absolute numbers of deaths, have been
decreasing over the last three decades in Europe. Materials and methods We estimated …

Background Current cancer mortality figures are important for disease management and
resource allocation. We estimated mortality counts and rates for 2020 in the European Union …

Background To overcome the lag with which cancer statistics become available, we
predicted numbers of deaths and rates from all cancers and selected cancer sites for 2019 in …

Gastric cancer incidence and mortality decreased substantially over the last decades in most
countries worldwide, with differences in the trends and distribution of the main topographies …

This report, the fifth in the series of WHO reports on the global tobacco epidemic, presents a
country-level examination of the epidemic and identifies countries that have applied effective …

Background We predicted cancer mortality figures in the European Union (EU) for the year
2017 using most recent available data, with a focus on lung cancer. Materials and methods …

Abstract Background Cancer mortality in Europe has been decreasing since the late 1980s
or 1990s in some countries with different patterns in many areas. In this study, we updated …