Tables

Registry summary tables

The cancer dictionary

List of the 241 diagnostic groups used in the tabulated database.

Tables of incidence by registry

This option presents the population pyramid and the sex-, age-specific and summary incidence tables by population.

The rates given in the body of these tables are the average annual incidence by sex, site and age-group per 100 000 population, i.e. they have been averaged over the number of years for which data are presented. The column headings are defined below:

Site

A shortened version of the full ICD-10 title describes each site or site grouping.

All ages

The total number of cases by site and for all sites.

Age unk

The numbers of cases of unknown age by site. They are included in the total numbers of cases and in the calculation of the all-ages crude rate, for each site and for all sites, but obviously do not appear in the age-specific rates. They are taken into account in the computation of the world standardized and cumulative incidence rates.

0-, 5-...

The age-groups for which incidence data are presented. These usually end with the age-group 85+, but population data are not available above age 70 or 75 for some registries and in this case the incidence data finish at age 70+ or 75+.

Crude rate

The crude average annual incidence rate, based on the total number of registrations, of known and unknown ages, by site.

%

The proportional frequency of each site to the total of all sites excluding ICD-10 C44 (other skin).

CR64 and CR74

The sum over each year of age of the age-specific incidence rates, taken from birth to age 64 and from birth to age 74.

ASR(W)

The world age-standardized incidence rate by site.

ICD(10th)

The ICD-10 (version 2010) code(s) corresponding to the site or group of sites given in the left-hand column.

Key to conventions and symbols used in the tables:

Zero rate: a dash (–) means that there are no cases registered.

0.0 means an incidence rate less than 0.05.

Population-at-risk

For populations with persons of unknown age, the numbers are shown below the lowest age-group in the pyramid. The percentages by age are computed over the total (male and female) population.

Summary tables by site (ICD-10 3-digit category)

These tables present the total number of cases, the world age-standardized incidence rates (ASR(W)) and the cumulative rates for age 0-74 (CUM 0-74), with their standard errors, for each of the cancer site presented in the registry summary tables and for colon and rectum and for all of the leukaemias.

Summary tables by site (ICD-10 4-digit category)

These tables present the world age-standardized incidence rates (ICD-10 three and four-digit rubrics) by sex, for selected sites.

Summary tables by histological type

This option presents the age-standardised incidence rates (ASR(W)) of microscopically verified (MV) cases by histological type and by sex, for selected cancers. The Histological Groups used in this volume are based on the ICD-O-3 morphology codes and have been fully described in Chapter 4.

Indices of data quality

1. Tables showing the percentage of cases microscopically verified (MV%), and the percentage of cases registered from a death certificate only (DCO%), by sex, for the following cancer sites or groups:
2. Table of the percentage of other and unspecified site (O&U) and unknown age (Unk), both sexes combined.