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Cancer in Germany
On 4. February is world cancer day. In Germany alone, each year, about 500,000 people are diagnosed with cancer face. Here are the most important cancers in women (♀) and males (♂).
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♀ Head
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. About 70,000 Times a year, make Doctors the diagnosis “Mamma carcinoma”. Over 17,000 women die each year because. Although the most common, as breast cancer is usually not the most dangerous type of cancer in women. Recognized early and treated, most diseases can be cured.
♂ Prostate
Prostate cancer, also prostate cancer called, is a malignant Tumor of the prostate gland of the man. Prostate cancer in Germany among men the most common cancer (approximately 26 percent). Per year, according to the Robert Koch Institute, nationwide about 63.400 new cases diagnosed.
The incidence of prostate cancer has almost three decades of steadily. This is mainly due to the use of new methods for the early detection due to the more prostate cancers, especially in the early stages, be discovered.
♀ ♂ Intestine
The term colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (Colon) and the rectum (rectal cancer). In summary, you as colorectal cancer known. The term cancer denotes cancer that has spread from the cover fabric to the skin or mucous membrane to assume, in this case, of the mucous membrane of the colon.
Colorectal cancer in Germany among men and women is one of the most common cancers. Five years after the cancer was found, still alive, almost two-thirds of Patients. The number of deaths related to all colorectal cancer patients take for years.
♀ ♂ Lungs
Lung cancer, also lung cancer or bronchial carcinoma, is also a very common cancer. In about 80 percent of cases, tumors of the lungs are malignant. More than half of the lung tumors develop in the upper Parts of the lung.
There are different types of Bronchialkarzinomen. Particularly vicious is the so-called small cell lung cancer. Trigger is in many cases Smoking.
♀ Uterus
Malignant tumors of the Gebärmutterkörpers have their origin almost always in the lining of the uterus (Endometrium), which is the Organ in the Interior lining. For this reason, it is cancer of the Gebärmutterkörpers also Gebärmutterschleimhautkrebs or medically endometrial cancer called.
Malignant tumors of the uterus are the most common cancer of the female genital organs.
♂ Bladder
Harnblasenkarzinome are malignant neoplasms of the urinary bladder. You mostly go by the mucous membrane of the lower urinary tract (Urothel), which is why the majority of patients with a Blasentumor on a another summary suffers. Every year, almost 16,000 new cases in Germany is one of the bladder cancer to the more common types of cancer. Men suffer him, on average, at the age of 69, women at the age of 73 years. Men are more than three times as often affected as women.
♀ ♂ , Skin cancer
The incidence of skin cancer is increasing since some decades steadily. The invasive malignant melanoma power in Germany at present, with approximately 18,000 new cases per year is four percent of all malignant cancers. Is skin cancer, however, early recognized, exist in principle for all kinds of high chances of recovery.
Malignant melanoma of the skin, also known as black mole cancer is the most malignant Form of skin cancer, cause is usually to high UV radiation.
♀ Pancreas
Pancreatic cancer, can in principle in any area of the body may occur. The most commonly affected is the Kopfanteil of the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer is with a share of approximately three percent of all cancers in Germany are relatively rare, however, particularly vicious.
♂ Kidneys
Malignant tumors of the kidney can be from different tissues run out. By far the most common are so-called Nierenzellkarzinome, also called kidney cancer or renal adenocarcinoma of the kidney is referred to. They account for around 95 percent of all kidney tumours and are mostly of the cells of the Harnkanälchen.
Kidney cancer is a relatively rare neoplastic disease. According to the most recent estimate of the Robert-Koch Institute, are diagnosed each year about 9,000 men and 5,600 women new in kidney cancer.
♂ Oral cavity and pharynx
Under the term head and neck tumors, various cancers, summarized in the head-neck region occur. These include malignant tumors of the oral cavity (Mundhöhlenkarzinome), the throat (Pharynxkarzinom), larynx (Larynxkarzinom), the nose, the sinuses and the outer neck, especially the thyroid gland.
♀ Ovaries
Of ovarian cancer (ovarian cancer) is one of the most aggressive tumors and is the second most common malignant disease of the female reproductive organs. The great danger with this kind of Tumor is that it is usually discovered very late, because for a long time no symptoms occur.
♂ Stomach cancer
Malignant tumors of the stomach, also stomach cancer or gastric cancer called, develop usually in the gastric mucosa. You go to 95 percent of the glandular tissue.
Per year in Germany develop according to the Robert Koch Institute, about 17,000 people to stomach cancer, of which around 9200 men. Among males is stomach cancer, the sixth most cancer in women the achthäufigste.
♀ ♂ Leukemia
The term leukemia, even cancer of the blood called, stands for a group of cancers of the hematopoietic system. The individual forms differ with regard to incidence, causes, treatment options and chances of recovery are partly strongly from each other. Leukemia comes from the bone marrow cells and is usually due to a greatly increased number of white blood cells in the blood.
Leukemia comes from the bone marrow cells out of the place where the blood is produced. Leukemia occurs when the normal maturation process of the white blood cells (leukocytes) in the bone marrow due to a faulty operation of certain Kontrollgene is interrupted.
Source: German Cancer Society