“The number of people being diagnosed with cancer in the world each year has leaped to more than 14 million” in 2012, compared with 12.7 million cases in 2008, according to new data released Thursday by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), BBC News reports (Gallagher, 12/12). “The global death toll from cancer rose [from 7.6 million in 2008] to 8.2 million in 2012 with sharp rises in breast cancer as the disease tightened its grip in developing nations struggling to treat an illness driven by Western lifestyles,” Reuters writes. “IARC’s report, called GLOBOCAN 2012, gives the most up-to-date estimates for 28 different types of cancer in 184 countries and offers an overview of the global cancer burden,” the news agency notes, adding, “The IARC report said cancer incidence … has been increasing in most regions of the world, but noted what it said were ‘huge inequalities’ between rich and poor countries” (Kelland, 12/12). “Projections based on the GLOBOCAN 2012 estimates predict a substantive increase to 19.3 million new cancer cases per year by 2025, due to growth and aging of the global population,” an IARC press release (.pdf) states (12/12).