Two years since the launch of the European Cancer Imaging Initiative, we are pleased to invite you to the high-level event “The European Cancer Imaging Initiative -...
Gastric and oesophageal cancers pose a serious public health concern. In 2020 a total of 189,031 incident cases (136,038 stomach, 52,993 oesophagus) and 142,508 deaths (96,997 stomach, 45,511 oesophagus) were estimated in Europe.
Although incidence rates of gastric cancer have been decreasing in Europe since decades, due to ageing the burden of oesophago-gastric cancer is expected to further rise in absolute terms the in next decades, with an estimated 25% increase for gastric cancer (170,027 cases) and a 22% increase in oesophageal cancer (64,720 cases) by 2040.