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Linear Accelerators for Radiation Market
According to data findings by the World Health Organization (WHO), in February 2018, cancer is the second-leading cause of death globally, accounting for 8.8 million deaths in 2015. Also, the number of new cases of cancer is expected to rise by 70% in the near future, globally, according to the same source. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), in 2012, an estimated 14.1 million new cancer cases were reported. Among these, the most common form of cancer was lung cancer (13%), breast cancer (11.9%), and colorectal cancer (9.7%), globally. According to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) International, 2015 data findings, 58% of the lung cancer cases were reported in the emerging economies, in 2014. Hungary had the highest rate of lung cancer, followed by Serbia, and North Korea. Moreover, highest incidence of lung cancer was registered in North America and Europe, for the same year. Moreover, according to the Cancer Research UK, 2015 statistics, 55,122 new cases of breast cancer were registered in 2015, U.K. In the U.K., breast cancer was the most common cancer, accounting for 15% of all new cancer cases in 2015. Furthermore, in 2014, 7% cases of breast cancer were registered among the total cancer deaths in the U.K., according to the same source.