Potential for Improvement in Cancer Management: Reducing Mortality in the European Union

Abstract

EUROCARE-5 data were used to provide an estimate of the potential number of lives saved by a series of assumptions about improving management for selected cancers in the European Union. Age-standardized mortality analyses allowed comparisons among different years and countries with different age distributions. Strategies to monitor and improve outcomes for cancer patients will have to be deliverable in the context of an ever-increasing number of older cancer patients.