Paris (Reuters) – Europe has to adapt in the coming years to a growing number of cancer deaths. «If we are to achieve quick progress against cancer, we must attack the “big killers” matched: Lung, colorectal, breast and stomach cancer», write the researchers Peter Boyle and Jacques Ferlay by the International Agency for research on cancer (IARC, Lyon) in a study on the development of cancer in 2004. The mortality rate per age group remains in constant, but due to the ageing of the population, the number of cases take to. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of people get over 80 years by 50 percent. Alone in the past year, 2.89 million Europeans ill according to the study of cancer and 1.71 million died out. Alone in the EU, 2.06 million new cases and 1.16 million deaths were registered. Lung cancer was the most common form throughout Europe with 13.2 per cent of diseases and even 20 percent of the deaths. The major risk factor tobacco give cause for concern in particular Eastern Europe and the behavior of young women, write the authors in an article for the journal “Annals of Oncology» (vol. 16, p. 481). Second most common form was colorectal cancer with 13 percent of the diseases and 11.9 percent of deaths in Europe. The following breast cancer with 12.8 percent of new diagnoses and 7.6 percent of the deaths. Here, the researchers see also still untapped possibilities. «The introduction of organized mammography programs in Europe will lead to a reduction in the mortality of breast cancer», they say. Stomach cancer is on the retreat. Men striking more susceptible to cancer than women: 54 percent of new cases and even 56 percent of the deaths were men. One reason for this may lie in the higher number of male smokers. Approximately every fifth cancer men had the study according to lung cancer. The prostate cancer followed with sharp distance with 15.5 percent on Court two. Among women, breast cancer with 27.4 percent was due to all diseases with even greater distance before colorectal cancer with 13.3 percent. Something more than a quarter of cases of lung cancer in men was also the by far most common cause of death. For women, the breast cancer with 17.4 percent was ahead. «Although the mortality rate for breast cancer in some countries of the European Union has declined recently, breast cancer retains a key role for health in Europe», the researchers write. Second frequently cause of cancer death was in both sexes of the colorectal cancer (men: 10.7 per cent, women: 13.3 percent). Third, lung cancer with 9.8 percent followed by the women.