According to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics 2022, the lifetime probability of a male in the U.S. developing cancer is 1 in 2. For females the probability is 1 in 3. Over 1.9 million people in the U.S. were newly diagnosed with cancer in 2022. About 17 million Americans are now being treated or were treated for cancer. About one of every four deaths annually in the U.S. is from cancer. Within the coming decades, lifetime cancer risk i.e., cancer incidence in the U.S. will increase 50%-70% mainly because of population growth and an aging population.
Work-related cancer, which includes exposure to occupational carcinogens such as chemicals, wood dust, radiation, viruses, and lighting and persistent night shift work (identified by IARC in 2019), is estimated to cause approximately 80,000 fatalities annually in the EU, twenty times the number caused annually by occupational accidents.