Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) and gene therapy

One in Four Deaths in Japan Caused by Cancer. Cancer is the most common cause of death for Japanese people who are 40 and over, while suicide is the leading cause among young people. In 2020, 378,356 people died of cancer in Japan, according to a Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare report. This accounts for 27.6% of all deaths that year and equates to one in four people dying of cancer. The death rate for cancer-the number of deaths per 100,000 people-has been rising steadily and in 2020 reached 307.0. For men, the type of cancer with the highest death rate at 88.8 was lung cancer (53,244 deaths), followed by stomach cancer (27,769), and colorectal cancer (27,715). For women, the most common type with a death rate of 38.0 was colorectal cancer (24,069) and then lung cancer (22,337).