Overview
- Statistik Austria says roughly 409,000 people were living with a cancer diagnosis at the start of 2025, including about 147,000 diagnoses made from 2020 to 2024 used to gauge care demand.
- Germany’s Robert Koch Institute estimates lifetime cancer risk at 49% for men and 43% for women, with about 518,000 new cases and 229,000 deaths recorded in 2023.
- Breast and prostate cancers are the most frequently diagnosed in Austria, followed by lung and colorectal cancers, and lung cancer accounted for about one in five cancer deaths in 2024.
- After adjusting for population ageing, cancer mortality in Germany has fallen over 25 years by about 31% for men and 21% for women, while age-standardised incidence has edged down.
- Burgenland is expanding support and end-of-life care with a hospice in Oberpullendorf, a Maggie’s Centre in Oberwart, and more than 2,200 counselling sessions reported by Krebshilfe.