Predicting a decline in deaths from cancer in the European Union
drafting international, 29 feb ( EFE).-in 2012 there will be nearly 1.3 million deaths from cancer in the European Union ( EU), a Figure that while it is more that five years ago due to the ageing of the population, would mean a fall in real between 7 and 10 per cent compared with 2007. So predicts it a study conducted by researchers from the universities of Milan and Switzerland in Lausanne published today in the Journal Annals of Oncology, also noted a significant decline in deaths for women breast cancer. According to the study, the rate of cancer mortality in the EU in 2012 will be of 139 per 100,000 in men (717.398) and 85 per 100,000 in women (565.703), in comparison with the figures recorded in 2007 by the world health organization representing a reduction of 10 per cent among males and 7 per cent among females. Except an increase in mortality for lung cancer in women (+ 7%) and cancer of the pancreas in both sexes, reducing deaths from cancer of the stomach, bowel, prostate, breast, uterus, and leukemia, according to the study. One of its most striking conclusions is a significant decline of nine percent in deaths from breast cancer, which is even larger, of the 13 percent, among women aged 20-49. This shows that important advances in treatments are responsible for this decrease and...
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