National integration of European standards.

Over the last 20 years, increasing life expectancy has becomea major determinant of increasing cancer incidence, and theWorld Health Organization has estimated that with this ageingof populations there could, by 2020, be 16 million new casesper year and 10 million deaths. In Europe, where primary prevention,screening and application of modern cancer therapies have ledin recent years to generally decreasing trends in age-standardizedmortality rates, it has nevertheless been estimated that therewill be 1.25 million cancer deaths