Table 3.

Incidence of patients with cancer associated anaemia in Greece and categorization per type of anaemia treatment

Type of cancer	% Of patients with cancer associated anaemia on treatment1	Newly diagnosed cancer patients in Greece2	Number of Greek patients with cancer associated anaemia or treatment1,2	Number of Greek patients on treatment with ESAs (17,4%)1,2	Number of Greek patients on treatment with transfusion (14,9%)1,2	Number of Greek patients on treatment with iron only (6,5%)1,2	Number of Greek patients under no treatment (61,2%)1,2
Breast	26.2	4.349	1.139	198	170	74	697
Lung	47.7	6.667	3.180	553	474	207	1.946
Gl-Colon	33	5.062	1.670	291	249	109	1.022
Head & Neck	46.1	1.100	507	88	76	33	310
Gynaecological	42.7	2.026	865	151	129	56	529
Lymphoma/myeloma	47.4	1.388	658	114	98	43	403
Leukaemia	53.3	1.512	806	140	120	52	493
Urogenital	43	5.610	2.412	420	359	157	1.476
Other	36.5	9.375	3.422	595	510	222	2.094
Total	375.9	37.089	14.660	2.551	2.184	953	8.972

Sources: ¹(Ludwig et al. 2004), ²WHO-Globocan 2008.