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BREATHING IN A NEW ERA

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LUNG CANCER POLICIES ACROSS EUROPE

Epidemiology

Sweden has the lowest burden, Poland the highest

Table 1 shows 2017 estimates of age-standardised incidence, prevalence, disability adjusted life years

(DALYs) and mortality rates for lung cancer in 11 European countries.^23 The incidence rate is the number

of new cases of lung cancer in a given year. The prevalence rate is the number of lung cancer cases that

are present in the general population of a country in a given year. Sweden has the lowest incidence rate,

the joint-lowest prevalence rate (with Romania), the lowest number of DALYs and the lowest mortality

rate. The Netherlands has the highest incidence rate and prevalence rate, while Poland has the highest

number of DALYs and the highest mortality rate.

Table 1: Comparative epidemiology of phase 1 countries

Red and green colours show highest and lowest national figures, respectively

Country

Incidence rate

(per 100,000)

Prevalence rate

(per 100,000)

DALYs rate

(per 100,000)

Mortality rate

(per 100,000)

Austria 33 67 549 24

Belgium 37 56 711 32

Finland 25 47 402 20

France 34 49 707 29

Netherlands 44 79 767 36

Norway 30 66 467 22

Poland 37 40 890 39

Romania 30 32 760 30

Spain 33 67 568 25

Sweden 21 32 373 19

United Kingdom 40 77 599 30

Europe 33 54 628 27

Global 27 42 503 24

Source: Global Burden of Disease, 2017.