Shocking! Number of patients diagnosed with cancer in the EU is the highest in Hungary

The number of people suffering from cancer is rising rapidly in Europe because the society is growing older. The situation is the worst in Hungary. Cancer takes the most healthy years from Hungarians, and its treatment is the most expensive in the country.

According to 444, cancer became the biggest adversary of the European people. Based on the newest study of the Swedish Institute for Health Economics, the number of patients has risen by more than one million since 1995, and in the next 20 years, there will be an additional 775 thousand people suffering from it. Sadly, the number of those who died because of the disease rose by 20 pc, so

cancer causes every fourth death in Europe

nowadays, and it has become the leading cause of death in Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

This is partly because society is growing older, there are more fat people in European countries, alcohol consumption is also rising, and unhealthy sunbathing is very common as well. If healthcare systems cannot improve the quality of care and prevention,

the situation in this respect will get worse in the coming decades.

In 2018, Hungary was leading the list of those countries where the highest number of people were diagnosed with cancer (700/100,000). Denmark, Germany, and Italy follow, while the lowest rate is in Cyprus with only 400 cancer diagnosis per 100,000 people. Interestingly, most European men were diagnosed with lung cancer 20 years ago, but today, the leading cancer type is prostate cancer. Among women, breast cancer is the most common.