Healthcare: Eurostat: în 2016, 21% of cancer-related deaths due to lung cancer
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Tobacco consumption is one of the greatest avoidable health risks in the European Union (EU). Many forms of cancer and cardiovascular and respiratory disease are linked to tobacco use. In the 26 EU Member States for which data are available for 2016, around a quarter of all deaths reported were due to cancer. Lung cancer accounted for 21% of all cancer-related deaths. In 2016, the share of lung cancer among all fatal cancers was ...