Stat Bite: cumulative risk of cancer incidence up to ages 50 and 75 by sex in 2022.

Figure 1 presents the cumulative risk of developing cancer for 7 countries in different world regions by sex. The risk of cancer up to age 50 is 1.5 to 2.5 times higher in women than in men in all countries, whereas the inverse is true when the risk is extended to ages up to 75; the lifetime risk of cancer incidence in men is consistently (albeit moderately) higher than in women in all countries other than Kenya, where risk of cancer incidence is higher in women in both age groups. Cumulative risk (up to ages 50—Panel A and ages 75—Panel B) of developing cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) for 7 countries in different world regions by sex in 2022 Sources: Ferlay J, Ervik M, Lam F, Laversanne M, Colombet M, Mery L, Piñeros M, Znaor A, Soerjomataram I, Bray F (2024). Global Cancer Observatory: Cancer Today (version 1.1). Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available from: https://gco.iarc.who.int/today, accessed [30 November 2025]. Freddie Ian Bray (Conceptualization, Writing—original draft), Mathieu Laversanne (Data curation, Formal analysis), and Salvatore Vaccarella (Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing) No funding was used for this Stat Bite. The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. No new data were generated or analyzed for this Stat Bite.