One in six women and one in seven men in Germany are diagnosed with cancer before the age of 65, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute. Which types of tumors are particularly common?
Almost one in two people in Germany will develop cancer at some point in their lives.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in its Epidemiological Bulletin, 49 percent of men and 43 percent of women are diagnosed with cancer.
And approximately one in six women and one in seven men will be affected by the disease before the age of 65, they write. foreign media, the Telegraph reports.
According to them, in 2023, approximately half a million people in Germany were newly diagnosed with cancer.
Of these 517,800 cancer cases, approximately 276,400 occurred in men and approximately 241,400 in women.
Approximately half of all new cases involved the prostate (79,600), breast (75,900), lung (58,300) or colon and rectum (55,300).
World Cancer Day on February 4th
According to mortality statistics, approximately 229,000 cancer deaths were recorded in Germany in 2023, of which around 123,000 were men and around 106,000 were women.
These figures come from the report "Cancer in Germany", published last December by the German Cancer Registry and the Center for Cancer Registry Data at the Robert Koch Institute.
To mark World Cancer Day on February 4, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) provides information on current findings and developments.
This international day of action aims to raise awareness about cancer and promote prevention and treatment. /
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