Database update: Cancer data up to 2022

How many people are diagnosed with cancer in Germany every year? What are the survival rates for bowel cancer? How have breast cancer rates changed over a period of 20 years?

You can find the answers to these and many other questions in our updated database query.

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Cancer in Germany 2019/ 2020

In 2020, an estimated 231,400 women and 261,800 men in Germany were newly diagnosed with cancer. As in almost all European and North American cancer registries, the number of new cancer cases recorded in the registries fell by around six percent in the first year of the pandemic in 2020 compared to the previous year. These figures come from the current edition of "Cancer in Germany". The 14th edition of this report has now been published with data up to 2020.

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New tasks, new data

Under a new legal framework, clinical and epidemiological data from the cancer registries of the German federal states are to be merged at the Centre for Cancer Registry Data (ZfKD) at the Robert Koch Institute. The main aim is to provide a more comprehensive database for cancer research.

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