Cancer rates rise amid inequalities between EU members

European countries have some of the best public health systems in the world. And yet cancer rates have been going up, according to the European Commission. For instance, in 2022, there was a 2.3 percent increase on the year 2020. The International Agency for Research on Cancer says it expects cases in Europe to keep increasing over the next two decades. That may be part of a global trend, but it still leads us to the question: why do Europeans account for around 25 percent of global cancer cases when they represent less than 10 percent of the world's population? Have Europeans become too comfortable in the way they live? Find out more with the Intergroup on Cancer and Rare Diseases at the European Parliament . Programme prepared by Perrine Desplats, Isabelle Romero, Oihana Almandoz and Agnès Le Cossec

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Cancer rates rise amid inequalities between EU members is an episode from Talking Europe by France Médias Monde.

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This episode was published on Feb 27, 2026.

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