Cancer is the fourth most common reason for a hospital stay in Germany. Only around 1.4 million patients were treated in a clinic for this in 2022.
The number of cancer-related hospital stays had already fallen in the previous year. In 2022, a good 231,500 people died as a result of cancer. The proportion of cancer victims in total deaths fell over the same period: from 25 percent in 2002 to 22 percent in 2012. 54 percent of cancer deaths were men and 46 percent were women.