More than 60,000 cases of cancer each year – Sydsvenskan

The risk increases with age. Two-thirds of those affected are over 65 years.

In the past 20 years, the growth rate was about one percent, but the differences are large between different diagnoses. For malignant melanoma of the skin, for example, the annual growth rate was of 3.8 percent.

Another diagnosis that greatly increased, especially among men, is cancer of the bladder and urinary tract. This cancer has increased by as much as 39 percent of men and 27 percent of women over the past 20 years.

For men, now this, the third most common cancer after prostate and skin cancer.

– Smoking is a risk factor. Seek medical care at the first sign of blood in the urine because early detection saves lives, says Jan Zedenius, medical and scientific expert for the Cancer Society.