Each year, 7 million people die from cancer, and 11 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide.

Worldwide, about 25 million people are living with cancer.

Cancer claims more than twice as many lives as AIDS.

In 2020, if current trends continue, new cases of cancer will increase to 16 million per year and more than 10 million people will die.

More people die from cancer than from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis put together: 12.5% of all deaths each year are due to cancer.

Each year, more than 160,000 cases of childhood cancer are diagnosed and at least 90,000 children die of cancer.

As 80% of children with cancer live in developing countries where effective treatment is not available, more than one in two of these children will die.

In developing countries, 80% to 90% of cancer patients already suffer from advanced and incurable cancers at the time of diagnosis.

By 2020, three out of every five new cancer cases will occur in the developing world.

By applying existing evidence-based knowledge, it is possible to prevent about 40% of the 11 million cancer cases that occur each year.

In addition, one-third of all cancer cases could be cured, given early diagnosis and effective treatment.

Each year, tobacco kills around 5 million people, of whom 1.4 million die of lung cancer.

We have the knowledge to provide better palliative care to people who are in the advanced stages of cancer.

More than a quarter of all cancer deaths are due to tobacco use.

Halving tobacco consumption now would avert 150 million premature deaths by 2050.

India accounts for one of the highest incidences of Head & Neck cancer cases in the world.

People who quit, regardless of age, live longer than people who continue to smoke.

Smokers who quit before age 50 cut their risk of dying in the next 15 years in half compared with those who continue to smoke.

The risk of developing lung cancer is about 23 times higher in male smokers and 13 times higher in female smokers compared to lifelong nonsmokers.

Smoking is associated with increased risk for at least 15 types of Cancer: nasopharynx, nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses, lip, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, pancreas, uterine, cervix, kidney, bladder, stomach, and acute myeloid leukemia.

The risk of lung cancer is no different in smokers of “light” or “low-tar” yield cigarettes.

Based on current patterns, smoking-attributable diseases will kill about 650 million of the world’s 1.3 billion smokers alive today.

Smoking on average, reduce life expectancy by approximately 14 years.

It is estimated that one in three people will develop cancer at some stage in their lives and that one in four will die from the disease.

Lung cancer is the cancer most commonly associated with smoking: around 90% of all lung cancers are caused by smoking, either directly or through indirect exposure.

Over 90% of patients with oral cancer use tobacco by either smoking or chewing it.