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Thomas Hofmarcher: Launch of the 2025 IHE Comparator Report on Cancer in Europe

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Mar 21, 2025, 17:43

Thomas Hofmarcher: Launch of the 2025 IHE Comparator Report on Cancer in Europe

Thomas Hofmarcher, Research Director at IHE – The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Launch of the 2025 IHE Comparator Report on Cancer in Europe.

Our flagship report analyzes and compares the cancer situation in Europe. It provides a comprehensive view of the development of cancer between 1995 and 2023. It highlights differences between countries in terms of the disease burden, costs, and patient access to new cancer medicines and molecular diagnostics.

It also describes the advances in the medical field and discusses policy issues of how to bridge inequalities in access to medicines across countries.

Bengt Jönsson and Nils Wilking (Karolinska Institute) founded this report series 20 years ago. Since then, it has become part of IHE’s legacy and a European reference for data and statistics on cancer. The two key messages of the 2025 report are:

Investments in cancer care are starting to pay off

More and more patients survive the disease
Cancer deaths in Europe have started to stabilize
Almost 200 new cancer medicines have been approved since 1995
Indirect costs of cancer declined by €15 billion from 1995 to 2023

Disparities in access to cancer medicines are getting smaller across European countries

The gap between the two highest- and lowest-uptake countries of new medicines shrank from a 5.3-fold difference in 2018 to a 3.3-fold difference in 2023
Health spending on cancer care and medicines has become more similar

I’m very grateful for the opportunity to present the report together with Nils Wilking at the event ‘Cancer Care 2030: From Policy Ambition to Impact’ hosted by EFPIA – European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations in Brussels!

Download the report (joint work with Andrea Manzano, Christer Svedman, Nils Wilking).”

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