Release notice - Canadian Cancer Statistics: A 2022 special report on cancer prevalence
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Abstract
A 2022 special report on cancer prevalence was released on November 8, 2022.This publication is produced through a collaboration between the Canadian Cancer Society, Statistics Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, with data provided by the provincial and territorial cancer registries and analyses completed by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.It provides estimates of cancer prevalence by cancer type, sex, age, geographic region, duration, neighbourhood income and urban and rural status for adults, and by cancer type for childhood cancers.Highlights include:• At the beginning of 2018, over 1.5 million people in Canada were living with or beyond cancer.Of those, approximately 60%were diagnosed 5 to 25 years prior.