Cancer affects millions of people on all continents and has a profound impact on society, as it involves family members and an entire support network during treatment and recovery from the disease.
In 2020, 19.3 million new cases were diagnosed worldwide – of these, 592,200 were in Brazil. Globally, breast cancer is the most common, while in our country, prostate cancer has the highest number of occurrences. When it comes to lethality, lung cancer ranks first in all scenarios.