Worldwide cancer

According to Cancer UK and the World Health Organization, Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide with an estimated 8.2 million deaths in 2012. Lung cancer was the highest at 1.6m (figures rounded). The graphic below shows the top four most common causes of cancer, by region, around the world and how they rank against each other

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