Special Communication
The Global Burden of Cancer 2013
Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration; Christina Fitzmaurice, MD, MPH; Daniel Dicker, BS; Amanda Pain, MPH, MSW; Hannah Hamavid, BA; Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, MD, MPH; Michael F. MacIntyre, EdM; Christine Allen, BA; Gillian Hansen, MSW; Rachel Woodbrook, MA, MLIS; Charles Wolfe, MD; Randah R. Hamadeh, BSc, MSc, DPhil; Ami Moore, PhD; Andrea Werdecker, Dipl.Oec.Troph; Bradford D. Gessner, MD, MPH; Braden Te Ao, MPH; Brian McMahon, MD; Chante Karimkhani, BA; Chuanhua Yu, PhD; Graham S. Cooke, DPhil; David C. Schwebel, PhD; David O. Carpenter, MD; David M. Pereira, PhD; Denis Nash, PhD, MPH; Dhruv S. Kazi, MD, MSc, MS; Diego De Leo, DSc, PhD, MD; Dietrich Plass, Dr; Kingsley N. Ukwaja, MBBS; George D. Thurston, ScD; Kim Yun Jin, MD, PhD; Edgar P. Simard, PhD, MPH; Edward Mills, PhD; Eun-Kee Park, PhD; Ferrán Catalá-López, PhD, MPH; Gabrielle deVeber, MD; Carolyn Gotay, PhD; Gulfaraz Khan, PhD; H. Dean Hosgood III, PhD; Itamar S. Santos, MD, PhD; Janet L. Leasher, OD, MPH, FAAO; Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH; James Leigh, PhD, MD, MSc; Jost B. Jonas, MD; Juan Sanabria, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS; Justin Beardsley, FRACP; Kathryn H. Jacobsen, PhD; Ken Takahashi, MD, PhD; Richard C. Franklin, PhD, MSocSc, BSc; Luca Ronfani, PhD; Marcella Montico, MSc; Luigi Naldi, MD; Marcello Tonelli, MD; Johanna Geleijnse, PhD; Max Petzold, PhD; Mark G Shrime, MD; Mustafa Younis, PhD, MA, MBA; Naohiro Yonemoto, MPH; Nicholas Breitborde, PhD; Paul Yip, PhD; Farshad Pourmalek, MD, MPH, PhD; Paulo A. Lotufo, MD, DrPH; Alireza Esteghamati, MD; Graeme J. Hankey, MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPE, FAHA; Raghib Ali, FRCP; Raimundas Lunevicius, PhD, Habil, Dr; Reza Malekzadeh, MD; Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH; Robert Weintraub, MB BS; Robyn Lucas, BSc, MBChB, MPH, TM MHE, PhD, FAFPHM; Roderick Hay, DM; David Rojas-Rueda, MD, MPH, PhD; Ronny Westerman, PhD; Sadaf G. Sepanlou, MD, MPH; Sandra Nolte, PhD; Scott Patten, MD, PhD; Scott Weichenthal, PhD; Semaw Ferede Abera, MSc; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, MD, MPH, MSc; Ivy Shiue, PhD; Tim Driscoll, MBBS, BSc(Med), MOHS, PhD; Tommi Vasankari, MD, PhD; Ubai Alsharif, DMD, MPH; Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, MD; Vasiliy V. Vlassov, MD; W. S. Marcenes, PhD; Wubegzier Mekonnen, PhD; Yohannes Adama Melaku, MPH; Yuichiro Yano, MD, PhD; Al Artaman, MD, PhD, MHA; Ismael Campos, MD, PhD; Jennifer MacLachlan, MSc (Epi); Ulrich Mueller, MD, PhD; Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH; Matias Trillini, MD; Babak Eshrati, PhD; Hywel C. Williams, DSc; Kenji Shibuya, MD; Rakhi Dandona, PhD; Kinnari Murthy, MBBS, MPH; Benjamin Cowie, MBBS, PhD, FRACP; Azmeraw T. Amare, MPH, MSc; Carl Abelardo Antonio, MD, MPH; Carlos Castañeda-Orjuela, MD, MSc; Coen H. van Gool, PhD; Francesco Violante, MD; In-Hwan Oh, MD, PhD; Kedede Deribe, MPH; Kjetil Soreide, MD, PhD; Luke Knibbs, PhD; Maia Kereselidze, MD, PhD; Mark Green, PhD; Rosario Cardenas, ScD; Nobhojit Roy, MD, MPH; Taavi Tillmann, MBchB; Yongmei Li, PhD; Hans Krueger, PhD; Lorenzo Monasta, DSc; Subhojit Dey, MD, PhD, MPH; Sara Sheikhbahaei, MD, MPH; Nima Hafezi-Nejad, MD, MPH; G. Anil Kumar, PhD; Chandrashekhar T. Sreeramareddy, MD; Lalit Dandona, MD, MPH; Haidong Wang, PhD; Stein Emil Vollset, MD, DrPH; Ali Mokdad, PhD; Joshua A. Salomon, PhD; Rafael Lozano, MD; Theo Vos, PhD; Mohammad Forouzanfar, MD, PhD; Alan Lopez, PhD; Christopher Murray, DPhil, MD; Mohsen Naghavi, MD, PhD, MPH