Overview
- Registries logged 517,800 new cancer diagnoses in Germany in 2023, including 276,400 in men and 241,400 in women.
- Over a lifetime, cancer is diagnosed in 49% of men and 43% of women, according to the RKI.
- Most cases occur from age 65 onward, while before 65 about one in six women and one in seven men receive a diagnosis.
- Prostate (79,600), breast (75,900), lung (58,300), and colorectal (55,300) cancers made up roughly half of new cases in 2023.
- Around 229,000 people died of cancer in 2023, with lung, colorectal, pancreatic, and breast cancers comprising nearly half of deaths, as age-standardized mortality has fallen 31% in men and 21% in women over 25 years.