Number of women dying from lung cancer increased
the number of deaths from cancer has declined further. Among women, however, the decline less strongly than men by an increase in women suffering from lung cancer.
The number of men dying from a cancer in less than thirty years with more than one-third decreased. This is partly because men have less lung cancer or stomach cancer, according to figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Friday brought out.
Lung cancer is still the most common type in men who die of cancer. However, the proportion of men who dies with it has become a lot smaller. It fell from 38 percent in the late eighties to 26 percent in 2015.
For ten years, colorectal cancer after lung cancer in men, the most common form in cancer deaths (12 percent). In the past 20 years, the proportion of prostate cancer remained stable (11 percent).
Breast cancer after lung cancer is now the most common type in women who die from cancer. Until 2006 caused breast cancer for the highest mortality.
Children
2015 in the Netherlands 69 children (0-14 years) deceased cancer. Brain cancer and leukemia were the most victims, according to the CBS. Compared to 2013 and 2014 the death rate hardly changed to no. In the years before the death rate was much higher. In 2006, deceased 110 children from the effects of cancer.
In the period from 2006 to 2015 deceased totaling nearly 10,000 children in the Netherlands, of whom 820 cancer patients. Most of them had brain cancer (321 deaths) or leukemia (191 deaths). More boys than girls deceased at the relevant time to cancer (447 against 373). Leukemia and lymphoma are one and a half times more common in boys.
Cancer last year was responsible for 8.6 percent of deaths among children. In the age group 2-11 years, cancer is the leading cause of death. Every year, between 500 and 550 children cancer and 800 are under active treatment, according to the CBS.
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