Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Less than 100,000 Hessians were treated with a cancer diagnosis in a German hospital in 2021. With the inpatient admission of 99,500 cancer patients in Hesse, the number fell below the 100,000 mark for the first time since statistical records began in 2000, according to data from the State Statistical Office on World Cancer Day (February 4). That was 1.3 percent less than in the previous year.
In a ten-year comparison, the number of Hessians in inpatient treatment due to cancer has fallen by five percent: in 2011, 104,700 Hessian patients were still being treated as inpatients in hospitals. As in the past 20 years, according to the data, more Hessian men (54 percent) with a cancer diagnosis were in inpatient treatment than women in 2021. A little more than half of the cancer patients in Hesse in 2021 were between 65 and 85 years old, as announced by the State Statistical Office.
With a clear difference of around 21 percent, "malignant neoplasms of the digestive organs" led to inpatient admission to the hospital in Hesse in 2021, according to the State Statistical Office. In second place is the diagnosis "malignant neoplasms of the respiratory organs and other intrathoracic organs" (14 percent). "Malignant neoplasms of the urinary organs" brought the Hessians third most often to the hospital with around ten percent.
