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Cancer Trends in England and Wales 1950-1999
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18/7/07
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Title:
Cancer Trends in England and Wales 1950-1999
National Statistics product:
Yes
Organisation (Sponsor):
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Type of contents:
Mainly data & analyses
Primary medium:
Online edition
Secondary medium/media:
Hardcopy Publication
Summary description:
Cancer is a major public health issue and the volume, Cancer Trends in England and Wales 1950-1999, brings together for the first time a large amount of information on cancer incidence, deaths from cancer, prevalence and survival from cancer.
A summary chapter draws together information on trends in the incidence of and mortality from all malignant cancers and for the most common individual cancers; the prevalence of major cancers; and an outline of survival trends over time and variations by age, sex and socio-economic deprivation. More detailed results on incidence, mortality, prevalence and survival are then presented in 20 separate chapters for each of the main cancers which together constitute around 88 percent of all malignancies in men and in women. There is also a chapter on the main childhood cancers. Information on cancer incidence, mortality and survival is presented by sex, age, region and deprivation.
The appendices contain key statistics about the UK; population estimates for 1971, 1981, 1991 and 1999; detailed tables of cancer incidence for England and Wales in 1994 and provisional results for 1995 to 1997; trends in incidence from 1971 to 1997; detailed tables of cancer mortality for 1999; trends in mortality from 1950 to 1999; and tables of cancer registration data quality indicators. Other appendices include a brief history of the cancer registration system which also outlines the role of the National Cancer Intelligence Centre at National Statistics, and details of the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries; a full description of the data and a survey of potential problems in the interpretation of cancer registration data; and descriptions of the methods used for calculating incidence rates, mortality, prevalence and survival.
This volume will be an essential resource for anyone with an interest in cancer patterns.
