Background Accurate childhood cancer burden data are crucial for resource planning and health policy prioritisation. Model-based estimates are necessary because cancer surveillance data are scarce or non-existent in many countries. Although global incidence and mortality estimates are available, there are no previous analyses of the global burden of childhood cancer represented in disability-adjusted life-years...
This article was corrected on January 28, 2021, to fix an error in a coauthor’s affiliation (jamaoncol.2020.8307). This article was also corrected on April 9, 2020, to fix an error in a coauthor’s affiliation (10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0741) and on March 12, 2020, to fix errors in coauthors’ names and an affiliation, Table data, Figure data, and the Supplement (10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.0224). Importance Cancer and o...
Background Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly availa...
Importance: The increasing burden due to cancer and other noncommunicable diseases poses a threat to human development, which has resulted in global political commitments reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan on Non-Communicable Diseases. To determine if these commitments have resulted in improved cancer control, quantitative assessments...