Cancer deaths in Europeans increase

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Deaths rates from cancer have fallen over the past five years in the European Union although the disease is this year expected to claim the lives of over 1.4 million people across the bloc, a study finds.

According to research published Tuesday in the Annals of Oncology, cancer death rates for men have dropped around 6% since 2014 to 139 deaths per 100,000 males, while women's rates have decreased from 86 deaths per 100,000 to 83 — a 3.6% decline.

Researchers attribute the improvement to more effective screening as well as early diagnosis and treatment.

However, the total number of deaths is expected to rise 5% from 2014 to 1.4 million this year due to the European population ageing and increasing in size, the study notes. Of these some 787,000 will be men and 621, 900 women.

https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/19/over-1-4-million-to-die-from-cancer-in-eu-this-year-study

 

The study also mentions that most cancer deaths in Europe are caused from smoking, and that the people who get diagnosed right now are most likely adults/senior citizens who started smoking in the 1970's, when it became en vogue for all genders to smoke in public in Europe.

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as you already mention, i want to add that it might also have to do with our excellent health care and conscience about health in general that people pay more attention to such diseases and thus you notice more cancer related deaths (which might have not been noticed years/decades before) 

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On 3/27/2019 at 4:08 PM, ToughHooker said:

as you already mention, i want to add that it might also have to do with our excellent health care and conscience about health in general that people pay more attention to such diseases and thus you notice more cancer related deaths (which might have not been noticed years/decades before) 

It's not a new thing for us to know when ppl die of cancer. For a few decades now when someone is dying of cancer we pretty much always know