Special Communication
Global Burden of Cancer 2015
Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration; Christina Fitzmaurice, MD, MPH; Christine Allen, BA; Ryan M. Barber, BS; Lars Barregard, PhD, MD; Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, PhD; Hermann Brenner, MD, PhD; Daniel J. Dicker, BS; Odgerel Chimed-Orchir; Rakhi Dandona, PhD; Lalit Dandona, MD, MPH; Tom Fleming, BS; Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, PhD; Jamie Hancock, MLS; Roderick J. Hay, DM; Rachel Hunter-Merrill, MA; Chantal Huynh, BA; H. Dean Hosgood, PhD, MPH; Catherine O. Johnson, PhD; Jost B. Jonas, MD; Jagdish Khubchandani, PhD, MD, MPH; G. Anil Kumar, PhD; Michael Kutz, BS; Qing Lan, PhD, MD; Heidi J. Larson, PhD; Xiaofeng Liang, MD, MSc; Stephen S. Lim, PhD; Alan D. Lopez, PhD; Michael F. MacIntyre, EdM; Laurie Marczak, PhD; Neal Marquez, BS; Ali H. Mokdad, PhD; Christine Pinho, BA; Farshad Pourmalek, MD, PhD, MPH; Joshua A. Salomon, PhD; Juan Ramon Sanabria, MD; Logan Sandar, BS; Benn Sartorius, PhD; Stephen M. Schwartz, PhD; Katya A. Shackelford, BA; Kenji Shibuya, MD; Jeff Stanaway, PhD; Caitlyn Steiner, MPH; Jiandong Sun, PhD; Ken Takahashi, MD; Stein Emil Vollset, DrPH; Theo Vos, PhD; Joseph A. Wagner, BS; Haidong Wang, PhD; Ronny Westerman, PhD; Hajo Zeeb, PhD; Leo Zoeckler, BA; Foad Abd-Allah; Muktar Beshir Ahmed, MPH; Samer Alabed, MD; Noore K. Alam, MPH; Saleh Fahed Aldhahri, MD; Girma Alem, MS; Mulubirhan Assefa Alemayohu, MPH; Raghib Ali, FRCP, MSc; Rajaa Al-Raddadi, PhD; Azmeraw Amare, MPH; Yaw Amoako, MD, FWACP; Al Artaman, MD, PhD; Hamid Asayesh, PhD; Niguse Atnafu, MS; Ashish Awasthi, PhD; Huda Ba Saleem, PhD; Aleksandra Barac, PhD; Neeraj Bedi, MD; Isabela Bensenor, MD, PhD; Adugnaw Berhane, MD, PhD; Eduardo Bernabé, PhD; Balem Betsu, MS; Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PhD; Dube Boneya, MPH; Ismael Campos-Nonato, MD, PhD; Carlos Castañeda-Orjuela, MD; Ferrán Catalá-López, PhD; Peggy Chiang, PhD; Chioma Chibueze, MD, PhD; Abdulaal Chitheer, FETP; Jee-Young Choi, PhD; Benjamin Cowie, MD, PhD; Solomon Damtew, MPH; José das Neves, PhD; Suhojit Dey, PhD; Samath Dharmaratne, MD; Preet Dhillon, PhD; Eric Ding, ScD; Tim Driscoll, PhD; Donatus Ekwueme, PhD; Aman Yesuf Endries, MPH; Maryam Farvid, PhD; Farshad Farzadfar, MD; Joao Fernandes, PhD; Florian Fischer, MPH; Tsegaye Tewelde G/hiwot, MPH; Alemseged Gebru, MPH; Sameer Gopalani, MPH; Alemayehu Hailu, MPH; Masako Horino, MPH; Nobuyuki Horita, MD, PhD; Abdullatif Husseini, PhD; Inge Huybrechts, PhD; Manami Inoue, MD, PhD; Farhad Islami, MD, PhD; Mihajlo Jakovljevic, MD, PhD; Spencer James, MD; Mehdi Javanbakht, PhD; Sun Ha Jee, PhD; Amir Kasaeian, PhD; Muktar Sano Kedir, MS; Yousef S. Khader, ScD; Young-Ho Khang, MD, PhD; Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH; James Leigh, MD, PhD; Shai Linn, MD, PhD; Raimundas Lunevicius, MD, PhD; Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, MBBCH; Reza Malekzadeh, MD; Deborah Carvalho Malta, MD, PhD; Wagner Marcenes, PhD; Desalegn Markos, MS; Yohannes A. Melaku, MPH; Kidanu G Meles, MPH; Walter Mendoza, MD; Desalegn Tadese Mengiste, MS; Tuomo J. Meretoja, MD, PhD; Ted R. Miller, PhD; Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, PhD; Alireza Mohammadi, PhD; Shafiu Mohammed, PhD; Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, MPH, MD; Gabriele Nagel, MD, PhD; Devina Nand, MPH; Quyen Le Nguyen, MD; Sandra Nolte, PhD; Felix A. Ogbo, MD; Kelechi E. Oladimeji, MPH; Eyal Oren, PhD; Mahesh Pa, DNB; Eun-Kee Park, PhD; David M Pereira, PhD; Dietrich Plass, DrPH; Mostafa Qorbani, PhD; Amir Radfar, MD; Anwar Rafay, MS; Mahfuzar Rahman, MD, PhD; Saleem M. Rana, PhD; Kjetil Søreide, PhD; Maheswar Satpathy, PhD; Monika Sawhney, PhD; Sadaf G. Sepanlou, MD, PhD; Masood Ali Shaikh, MD; Jun She, MD, PhD; Ivy Shiue, PhD; Hirbo Roba Shore, MPH; Mark G. Shrime, MD, PhD; Samuel So, MBBS; Samir Soneji, PhD; Vasiliki Stathopoulou, PhD; Konstantinos Stroumpoulis, MD, PhD; Muawiyyah Babale Sufiyan, MBA; Bryan L. Sykes, PhD; Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, MD, PhD; Fentaw Tadese, MPH; Bemnet Amare Tedla, BS; Gizachew Assefa Tessema, MPH; J. S. Thakur, MD; Bach Xuan Tran, PhD; Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, MD; Benjamin S. Chudi Uzochukwu, FWACP; Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, MD; Elisabete Weiderpass, MD, PhD; Mamo Wubshet Terefe, PhD; Henock Gebremedhin Yebyo, MS; Hassen Hamid Yimam, MPH; Naohiro Yonemoto, MPH; Mustafa Z. Younis, DrPH; Chuanhua Yu, PhD; Zoubida Zaidi, MD, PhD; Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, MD, PhD; Zerihun Menlkalew Zenebe, MS; Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil; Mohsen Naghavi, PhD