Researchers from IARC and partners find that almost 7 in 10 premature cancer deaths in women could have been prevented

According to a new Lancet Commission on Women, Power, and Cancer and an accompanying new analysis of data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), published in The Lancet Global Health, the deaths of almost 7 in 10 women who died prematurely (i.e. at ages < 70 years) of cancer in 2020 could have been prevented.

Ginsburg O, Vanderpuye V, Beddoe AM, Bhoo-Pathy N, Bray F, Caduff C, et al.
Women, power, and cancer: a Lancet Commission
Lancet, Published online 26 September 2023;
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01701-4

Frick C, Rumgay H, Vignat J, Ginsburg O, Nolte E, Bray F, et al.
Quantitative estimates of preventable and treatable deaths from 36 cancers worldwide: a population-based study
Lancet Glob Health, Published online 26 September 2023;
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00406-0