In 2025, a total of 296,103 people will be diagnosed with cancer in our country, 3.3% more than the previous year, according to the report ‘Cancer figures in Spain 2025’, prepared by the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM) and … the Spanish Network of Cancer Registries (Redecan)presented last Monday on the occasion of commemoration on February 4, World Cancer Day.
According to the report, the probability of the appearance of a tumor is intimately linked to age. Thus, as observed in the following graph, the risk is increasing as we turn.
The indices begin to increase faster from 45 years. At that time, the risk of PGive it in men is 3.2%while women is located just over two percentage points above (5.3%).
Until 60 years the probability of having developed cancer is superior in women than in men. Thus, in the strip included between 50 and 54, the percentage of women who would have developed is located in the 8.1% compared to 5.7% of them; in the 55 to 59, 11.4% of women would have a tumor, compared to 9.6% of men. However, it is from 60-64 when that trend is reversed And it is they who have a higher incidence, (15.4% probability in men, compared to 15.2% in women).
From the age of 65, as seen in the upper graph, the probability that a man be diagnosed with cancer grows exponentially. Thus, if between 65 and 69 years the risk of a man in Spain of developing cancer is 23%, between 70 and 74 increases to 31.6%, reaching an index of 40.4%between 75 and 79 years, until reaching 48.1% from having blown the 80 candles.
In the case of women, the risk of suffering a tumor is 19.6% between 65-69 years, while more than four percentage points (23.8%) increases between 70 and 74 years, reaching up to 33% from the age of 80.
Higher frequency
According to the report, the most frequently diagnosed cancers will be those of Colon and rectum (44,573 new cases), Mama (37,682), lung (34,506), prostate (32,188) and urinary bladder (22,435).
Far behind are the Non -Hodgkinian lymphomas (10,383), el pancreatic cancer (10,338), el Kidney cancer (9,774), el Cutaneous malignant melanoma (9,408), Los Oral cavity cancers and pharynx (7,446), and the Uterine body cancers (7,428), stomach (7,136) e liver (6,800).
By sex, in men, as in 2024, those of prostate (32,188), Colon and straight (27,224), lung (23,442) and urinary bladder (18,281). And, in women, those of mother (37,682) and those of Colon and straight (17,349). In this last group the lung cancer (11,064) remains as a third tumor more incident since 2019 due to the increase in tobacco consumption in it from the 70s.
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