New Delhi, July 9 -- Cancer will affect one in five people during their lifetime and touch the lives of nearly everyone, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Status Report on Cancer 2026. The report, released on Tuesday, warns that the global cancer burden is rising rapidly and that a person's chances of surviving the disease are increasingly shaped by where they live and their economic circumstances. "Our experience of the disease and chances of surviving now depend less on the stage or biology of our disease than on where we live and our economic circumstances," the report said. Globally, 20.6 million people were diagnosed with cancer in 2024, including 19.5 million new cases excluding non-melanoma skin cancer. Of the...