In 2020 there was 19.3 million cancer cases globally and 10 million deaths from cancer.

By 2040 there is projected to be 28.4 millions cancer cases.

Between 2016 and 2020 there was $24.5 billion in cancer research over 66,388 funding awards.

The median award was $90,576.

Over 70% of the funding went to pre-clinical research and only 2.8% went to radiotherapy and 1.4% to surgery.