Cancer deaths falling for half decade in EU: study - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The chances of dying from cancer for men has dropped about six percent from 139 deaths per 100 000 males in 2014 to 131 this year, according to a paper in the Annals of Oncology medical journal.

However the total number of deaths is expected to increase to 1.4 million in 2019, a rise of nearly five percent from 1.35 million in 2014. Some 787 000 will be men and 621 900 women. Lung cancer remains the most deadly form of the disease, with 279 000 combined deaths expected this year. Poland however showed a two percent increase, according to the study, written by professors Carlo La Vecchia of the University of Milan and Fabio Levi at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

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