Scientists predict European cancer mortality will decrease

Swiss and Italian health experts estimate that 1.3 million Europeans will die from cancer in 2011 . Although this amount is an overall decline , the researchers warn that cancer rates are not the same all over Europe .
The study looked at cancer data from across the European UnionNearly 1.3 million people of Europe will succumb to some form of cancer in 2011The figure is a decrease in the overall cancer rate of 7 per cent to 6 per cent for men and women over the last four years . Stomach , colon , breast , uterus , prostate and lung cancer men should continue to decline , the researchers write .
The analysis used a prediction model based on the level of individual cancer from France , Germany , Italy , Poland , Spain and England as well as the cancer rate for the EU as a whole .
Scientists warn that while overall cancer deaths decreased , they do not tell the whole story as Europe's population grows and gray .

 Despite the favorable trends in cancer death rate in Europe , the number of cancer deaths remains approximately stable , due to the aging population , " said Dr. Carlo La Vecchia , a professor of medicine at the University of Milan in Italy , who led the study .
He also warned that the cancer risk is not evenly distributed across the 27 member states of the European Union .
There is a gap in cancer mortality persist among the countries of central and eastern Europe compared with Western Europe , and this is likely to persist in the foreseeable futureLung cancer remains a concern
In addition to looking at overall cancer rates , the study also examines several cases of certain types of cancer in certain groups . For example , the study found that the number of women who suffer from lung cancer continues to rise in the European Union , with the exception of the UK , which has historically had relatively high levels of female lung cancer .
In the EU , the rate of lung cancer in women has increased since 2007 from 12.55 to 13.12 per 100,000 people this year .
Lung cancer is also of deep concern in Poland , where the disease has overtaken breast cancer as a cause of cancer death in women , which represents an increase in the rate of death from lung cancer per 100,000 women from 15.53 to 16.60 years , 2011.