- Title
- Changes in cancer incidence and mortality in Australia over the period 1996-2015
- Creator
- Luo, Qingwei; Steinberg, Julia; O'Connell, Dianne L.; Grogan, Paul B.; Canfell, Karen; Feletto, Eleonora
- Relation
- BMC Research Notes Vol. 13, Issue 1, no. 561
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-05395-6
- Publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Objective: A previous Australian study compared the observed numbers of cancer cases and deaths in 2007 with the expected numbers based on 1987 rates. This study examines the impact of cancer rate changes over the 20-year period 1996–2015, for people aged under 75 years. Results: The overall age-standardised cancer incidence rate increased from 350.7 in 1995 to 364.4 per 100,000 in 2015. Over the period 1996–2015, there were 29,226 (2.0%) more cases (males: 5940, 0.7%; females: 23,286, 3.7%) than expected numbers based on 1995 rates. Smaller numbers of cases were observed compared to those expected for cancers of the lung for males and colorectum, and cancers with unknown primary. Larger numbers of cases were observed compared to those expected for cancers of the prostate, thyroid and female breast. The overall age-stand-ardised cancer mortality rate decreased from 125.6 in 1995 to 84.3 per 100,000 in 2015. During 1996 to 2015 there were 106,903 (−20.6%) fewer cancer deaths (males: − 69,007, − 22.6%; females: − 37,896, −17.9%) than expected based on the 1995 mortality rates. Smaller numbers of deaths were observed compared to those expected for can-cers of the lung, colorectum and female breast, and more cancer deaths were observed for liver cancer.
- Subject
- Australia; cancer incidence; cancer mortality; cancer control
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1425284
- Identifier
- uon:38225
- Identifier
- ISSN:1756-0500
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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