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2 February 2023 World Cancer Day: record low of in-patient cancer treatments in 2021

In 2021, just under 1.44 million patients were treated for cancer in hospitals on an in-patient basis. The number of in-patient cancer treatments in the second Covid year thus fell to a record low within the last 20 years as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) to coincide with World Cancer Day on 4 February. The number of cancer-related hospital stays in 2021 fell by 1.2% on the first Covid year 2020, and by 7.2% on the pre-Covid year 2019 when roughly 1.55 million cancer treatments were recorded.

16 December 2022 Causes of death statistics 2021: 7% of all deaths directly due to Covid-19

2 November 2022 Number of in-patient treatments for testicular cancer down by 40% within 20 years

30 May 2022 Number of women dying of lung and bronchial cancer significantly higher than 20 years ago

6 April 2022 Skin cancer led to 81% more hospital treatments in 2020 and 53% more deaths than in 2000

3 February 2022 In-patient cancer treatments down 6% in 2020

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Number of deaths has fallen by 1.6% in 2019

A total of 939,520 people died in Germany in 2019, of whom 465,885 were men and 473,635 women. This means that the number of deaths has fallen by 1.6% compared to the previous year. As in the previous years, the most common cause of death in 2019 was cardiovascular disease. It accounted for 35.3% of all deaths.

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2 February 2023 World Cancer Day: record low of in-patient cancer treatments in 2021

16 December 2022 Causes of death statistics 2021: 7% of all deaths directly due to Covid-19

2 November 2022 Number of in-patient treatments for testicular cancer down by 40% within 20 years

30 May 2022 Number of women dying of lung and bronchial cancer significantly higher than 20 years ago

6 April 2022 Skin cancer led to 81% more hospital treatments in 2020 and 53% more deaths than in 2000

3 February 2022 In-patient cancer treatments down 6% in 2020

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Number of deaths has fallen by 1.6% in 2019

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