Prisha Dev – Global News July 8, 2026
A new report from the World Health Organization warns that the number of people diagnosed with cancer each year is expected to surge over the next quarter-century.
The report projects annual cancer diagnoses will climb from about 20 million today to nearly 35 million by 2050.
While some cancers are declining thanks to prevention efforts, experts warn aging populations, rising obesity rates and other risk factors will place unprecedented pressure on health-care systems around the world.
“We need to focus attention on what some people are calling the cancer tsunami,” said Dr. Peter Stotland, chief of surgery and a surgical oncologist at North York General Hospital.
Stotland told Global News the findings mirror what doctors are already seeing in Canada.
“We’re seeing just higher numbers of people coming in with cancer,” he said, pointing to an aging population that is expected to drive increases in lung, prostate and colorectal cancers.
“I think it’s shocking because this is something that we’re seeing on a regional, provincial level and a national level,” he said.
At the same time, doctors are also seeing more young people diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
“We can be seeing two spikes… one in older people and another in younger people with cancer,” he said. “That’s going to put a lot of stress on the health-care system.”
The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer estimates cancer cases will increase worldwide over the next 25 years, though the reasons vary by region.
Dr. Isabelle Soerjomataram, a medical doctor and deputy head of the agency’s Cancer Surveillance Branch, said higher-income countries such as Canada will likely see more cases among older adults.
“We are really not equipped to handle this increasing demand,” she said, noting the imbalance between the growing number of cancer patients and the health-care workforce needed to care for them.
The report also found cancer reaches far beyond those diagnosed.
Researchers estimate that while roughly 20 million people receive a cancer diagnosis each year, about 92 per cent of the world’s population is personally affected through a family member, caregiver or close friend.
Toronto resident Nadia Headley knows that impact first hand.
Headley was just 30 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer while raising her four-year-old daughter.
“I immediately went into mom mode,” she said, recalling receiving the diagnosis with her daughter in the room.
“I tried so hard to stay strong in front of my daughter.”
She said explaining cancer to a young child while navigating treatment herself was one of the hardest parts of the experience.
“‘Mommy is not well and the doctors need to fix mommy’s body,’” she remembered telling her daughter. “‘The medication they’re going to give mommy is going to make mommy feel really sick.’”
Today, Headley is cancer-free but continues to live with the long-term effects of treatment, including lymphedema.
“It’s not an open-and-closed case as you might think,” she said. “There are side effects from treatment as well.”
Despite the projections, experts say millions of future cancer cases could still be prevented.
The WHO estimates roughly four in 10 cancers are linked to preventable risk factors such as tobacco use, obesity, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption and certain infections.
Stotland said Canadians can lower their risk through healthy lifestyle choices and benefit from recommended screening programs, including breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening.
“So many cancers can be picked up with this type of screening,” he said.
For governments, however, both experts say planning must begin now. “Cancer is not going anywhere,” Stotland said.
“Even though we’re curing a lot of cancer, just with our aging population we’re unfortunately going to see increases in the number of cancer patients seeking treatment. We need to plan for this.”
–with files from Katherine Ward, Global News
some years back Moshe Solomons said
that all jewish supermarkets work together
they are one big cartel
they have 50 carcinogenic additives
the word carcinogenic means cancer causing
This is deliberate
Moshe said in a warning, that cancer will affect everyone
but not the jews as we eat kosher
this is behind the massive success of farmers markets
the government is out to stop farmers produce
ask your self why
LOL. The kikes, who already rake the world over “cancer”, want to ramp it up. “cancer” is already through the roof, and it has nothing to do with “ageing populations”.
Roundup is glyphosate. That’s what they spray on your food. In america, dump signed it in as “vital to america” to keep the poisoning going. The farmers are poisoning you with cancer.
Why do you think the young are getting “cancer”? Some are jew jabbed, but the majority are poisoned by roundup, courtesy of the farmers.
Why do you think there’s so much illness worldwide? Compared to a hundred years ago, you’re sicker than a pile of jews.
Not that it matters. Trying to reason with idiots will turn you into an idiot.
The Covid vaccine is having its intended effect?
When people, both young and old, are taught how to live a life-sustaining (healthy) diet and lifestyle without the accumulation of toxins within the body, then the “cancer problem” will be solved.
There you have it. The countless billion$ pumped into “can/cer research” over the decades has resulted in….
A DOUBLING of it over the next 10 years.
Now y’all know where your money really went.
“The WHO estimates roughly four in 10 cancers are linked to preventable risk factors such as tobacco use, obesity, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption and certain infections.”
I would bet that all cancers have environmental causes; that is radiation and chemicals… Along with another comment I have made today, we are held back by the Pasteur’s paradigm that is so profitable and useful for geopolitics…
I used to go to a local pub many years ago until I grew out of it. The “price” of admission proved more than what I was getting from the experience. I have come to feel the same way about the TTS… We have lost a lot of the old posters who probably feel they have been banging their head against the wall…
Hilarious,
Who’d-a thought it, !
Kerrrrching$$$$$$$
Excellent, ‘They’ll’ never find a cure….
But keep growing for Movember,
wear pink, run, collect, contribute blah de blah.
& above all, Keep drinking the DIET cool-ade.
((& I wonder what ‘they’ put in the INK too…))
I never drew on my desk, nevermind MYSELF.
Mugs.
But the vapes are safe eh !
HA HA HA HA .
Aye, the convid jew jab of death is working as prescribed
Cancer is a fungus, you are born with it. You die with it. It eats you when you die. Cancer is Candida one of the easiest things to cure. Bicarbonate of soda and lemon juice
What we need are more self screening apps for my phone. The wifi radiation alone will slow cancers from growing.