The three most common types of cancer: typical symptoms and who is at risk. According to estimates by the Center for Cancer Registry Data, a total of around 493,200 initial diagnoses of cancer were recorded in Germany in 2020.
About half of the new cases were in cancers such as breast cancer (71,300), prostate (65,800), colon (54,800) and lung (56,700) The first signs and typical symptoms of carcinoma in the intestine are often unspecific signs such as fatigue and listlessness.