Link to the source article >> https://healthpolicy-watch.news/liver-cancer-europe/
October is Liver Cancer Awareness month, and Europe has a liver cancer problem. Over the past two decades, there has been a 70% increase in liver cancer-related mortality in the region.
In 2020, 87,000 Europeans were diagnosed with liver cancer while 78,000 died from the disease in the same year.
Late diagnosis is a serious problem. About half of patients are only diagnosed in an advanced stage of cancer and have less than a year to live.
Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer and the third biggest cause of cancer-related deaths globally.
In the US, the rate of deaths from liver cancer increased by 40% from 1990 to 2004 while the overall rate of non-liver cancer deaths declined by 18%.
Projections for the US estimate that in 2030, liver cancer will be the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths, surpassing breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers.
There are many risk factors for developing liver cancer, and chronic liver diseases caused by viral hepatitis, alcohol, or fatty liver disease are the most important.
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