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Causes of death in EU-28 in 2011: One in four deaths caused by cancer

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Squamous_carcinoma_lung_2_cytologyIn the EU-28 in 2011, cancer was the cause of death for 1.281 million persons, responsible for more than a quarter of all deaths (26.3%). Over the past ten years, while the total number of deaths slightly decreased (-0.5%), the number of deaths due to cancer increased by 6.3% (from 1.206 million in 2002 to 1.281 million in 2011), at a slightly higher pace for females (+6.6%) than for males (+6.0%). However, the number of deaths due to cancer remained higher in 2011 among the male population (718,000 deaths due to cancer) than among the female population (563,000). In 2011, cancer represented 37.1% of all causes of death for the EU-28 population aged less than 65, while this level was only 23.8% for the older population (those aged 65 years and over).

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