More and more new cancer cases

Publication "Cancer in Germany" shows significant increase in new cases of cancer

17/12/2013

More and more people get cancer in Germany. This result emerges from the 9th edition of the publication "Cancer in Germany", a joint publication of the Robert Koch Institute and the Society of Epidemiological Cancer Registries in Germany e. V. (GEKID), which was published on Monday in Berlin. According to this, between the years 2000 and 2010 there was a significant increase in new cases of cancer, whereby men were even more affected than women with an increase of 21% (plus 14%)..

Development caused in particular by demographic change
According to the publication "Cancer in Germany", the number of new cases of cancer in Germany is increasing more and more. Like the 9th edition of the joint project of the Society of Epidemiological Cancer Registries e. V. (GEKID) and the Center for Cancer Registry Data (ZfKD) in the Robert Koch Institute, is the cause of this development, especially in the growing proportion of older people in the population.

An estimated 477,300 new cancer cases in 2010
For the current report, experts had evaluated data from all over Germany and came to the conclusion that in 2010, approximately 477,300 people were newly diagnosed with cancer - 252,400 men and 224,900 women. „This means that the number of new cases has risen by around 71,500 since the year 2000“, according to the report, the most common cancers include breast cancer with around 70,300 new cases a year, prostate cancer (65,800) and colorectal cancer (62,400).

Women especially affected by tumors of the mammary gland
Looking more closely at the estimated numbers of new cases of cancer in Germany in 2010, the report reports that women are particularly affected by tumors of the mammary gland (70,340), the intestine (28,630) and the lungs (17,030). In men, on the other hand, tumors are particularly common in the prostate (65,830), while lungs (35,040) and intestine (33,800) occupy places two and three, as in women, but in reverse order. According to the RKI, this means that women have been involved in the past decade „Increase in age-standardized rates of breast cancer, malignant melanoma of the skin, tumors of the lung, thyroid, vulva, oral cavity and throat.“ A reflux is, however, especially in cancers of the stomach, gallbladder and biliary tract, the intestine and the
To observe ovaries. According to the report since the year 2000, men reported a rise in malignant melanoma, prostate cancer and liver cancer, while the incidence of tumors in the stomach, lungs, larynx and urinary bladder was decreasing.

„Without demographic change in men no increase in cancer cases“
Altogether, according to the experts, between 2000 and 2010 there was an increase of 21% among men and 14% among women with cancer incidence - which is mainly caused by the increasing number of older people in the course of demographic change. „Age-standardized morbidity rates show that without this demographic change in men, there would be no increase in cancer cases“, so the message of the RKI. For women as well, without demographic change, there would have been an increase of only around 7% - but this would not be an actual increase in cancer risk, but rather „an internationally observed effect of the introduction of mammography screening“, whereby more tumors would be discovered at an early stage. (No)