Shows new research published on Wednesday that about 1.3 million people die of cancer in the European Union this year, but the disease death rates are declining.
The study included all types of cancer across the EU, which includes 27 countries thatmen are more likely to die from malignant disease compared to women and that "significant decline" in the number of deaths from breast cancer would reduce mortality rates among women.
Despite this, the breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among women in the European Union, while the lung cancer - which is caused mainly bysmoking or inhalation of cigarette smoke - is the most cancer-causing death amongmen.
Predicted by researchers from Italy and Switzerland in their study, published in the journal Oncology that rates of cancer deaths in the European Union between 139 casesper 100 thousand men and 85 cases per 100 thousand women in 2012.
They said that compared to cases of confirmed deaths in 2007 - the latest year covered by the World Health Organization data for mortality rates in most countries of the European Union - these figures represent a decline of 10 percent among men and 7percent among women.
Source: Reuters
The study included all types of cancer across the EU, which includes 27 countries thatmen are more likely to die from malignant disease compared to women and that "significant decline" in the number of deaths from breast cancer would reduce mortality rates among women.
Despite this, the breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among women in the European Union, while the lung cancer - which is caused mainly bysmoking or inhalation of cigarette smoke - is the most cancer-causing death amongmen.
Predicted by researchers from Italy and Switzerland in their study, published in the journal Oncology that rates of cancer deaths in the European Union between 139 casesper 100 thousand men and 85 cases per 100 thousand women in 2012.
They said that compared to cases of confirmed deaths in 2007 - the latest year covered by the World Health Organization data for mortality rates in most countries of the European Union - these figures represent a decline of 10 percent among men and 7percent among women.
Source: Reuters