Cancer in Germany 2013/2014
Every two years the Association of Population-based Cancer Registries in
Germany (GEKID) and the German Centre for Cancer Registry Data (ZfKD)
at the Robert Koch Institute jointly publish the Cancer in Germany report.
The results presented in this 11th edition are based on epidemiological cancer
registry data up to the year 2014. According to ZfKD estimates, there were
around 476,000 new cases of cancer in Germany that year. In women, breast
cancer continues to be most common (around 69,200 cases), whereas in men
the most common form is prostate cancer (around 57,400 cases). Between
2004 and 2014 it was mainly the demographic shifts of an ageing society that
led the number of new cancer cases to increase. Standardised for age, the
figures show the rates for men have actually decreased by 10 % and those for
women by 3 %. Beyond the results included in this edition, further analyses are
avail able at: www.krebsdaten.de/english.
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