Statistics Canada reports that most deaths in Canada will be due to cancer in 2021

 

Statistics Canada estimates that the majority of deaths in Canada in 2021 were due to cancer. One in four deaths that year were from cancer, the report said. This is followed by heart disease (17.7 percent). The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that 127,100 men and 120,000 women will be diagnosed with cancer in 2024. Prostate cancer accounts for one-fifth of all new cancer cases in men.

The society predicts that more men (47,300) than women (40,800) will die of cancer this year. Lung cancer is the most commonly reported lung cancer in both men and women, according to the organization's forecast.

Meanwhile, a global study reports that cancer deaths among men will rise significantly by 2050. According to a new study published in the medical journal Cancer, the incidence will increase by 84 percent and deaths by 93 percent. The study looked at 30 types of cancer and mortality from 185 countries. Cancer cases in men were 10.3 million in 2022 and will rise to 19 million by 2050, according to researchers. That means an increase of 84 percent.