(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 28 - Half of women (51%) and almost 40% of European men recover from cancer.
This is what emerges from a study published in the 'International Journal of Epidemiology', by the Higher Institute of Health and Cancer Center of Aviano (Pordenone), conducted sweaty by the Eurocare program on 32 types of cancer: in less than ten years people return to have a life expectancy similar to those who are not ill with regard to thyroid, testicular, stomach, colorectal, uterus and permelanoma cancers in particular.
The data concern 7 million patients collected in 17 European countries from 1990 to 2007 and followed for at least 18 years.
In particular, in Europe, the people who have had a diagnosis of cancer are about 25 million out of a population of 500 million inhabitants. The indicators were calculated for the first time in a systematic way at European level by type of cancer, by sex and by age group. "In 10 years - comments Luigino Dal Maso, epidemiologist at the Oncological Reference Center of Aviano and coordinator of the study - the increase in the probability of healing was about 10% for most cancers. After 5 years from diagnosis, people can remain cured. diagnosed with testicular or thyroid cancer; after less than 10 years people with stomach, colorectal, endometrial and melanoma cancers. Most people with prostate or breast cancer will need more than 10 years for their life expectancy reaches that of chin did not have a tumor. " The results of the study, published in the prestigious International Journal of Epidemiology, "show that there are many cancers that can be cured, not just cured," adds De Maso. "It is also conceivable - emphasizes Silvia Francisci, ISS researcher and co-director of the study - that people with diagnoses after 2007 have a greater probability of recovery than what this research documented". (HANDLE).