Canadian Cancer Statistics publication

This annual publication provides health professionals, researchers, policy-makers and the general public with detailed information about incidence, mortality and other statistics for the most common types of cancer by age, sex, year and province or territory. It is developed through collaboration between the Canadian Cancer Society, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada and provincial and territorial cancer registries with input from the Canadian Cancer Statistics Advisory Committee.

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Media release 2013

2013 cancer statistics – figures in PowerPoint

Introductory figures A–C
Figures 1.1–2.4 – incidence
Figures 3.1–4.4 – mortality
Figures 5.1–6.2 – survival and prevalence
Figures 7.1–7.3 – liver cancer
Supplementary figures – incidence, mortality, annual percent change, survival

Additional sections – not included in the publication
Potential years of life lost due to cancer

National statistics at a glance from Canadian Cancer Statistics

• An estimated 187,600 new cases of cancer (excluding about 81,700 non-melanoma skin cancers) and 75,500 deaths will occur in Canada in 2013.

• More than half (about 52%) of all new cases will be lung, breast, colorectal and prostate cancers.

• About 2 in 5 Canadians will develop cancer in their lifetimes and 1 in 4 will die of the disease.

• 63% of Canadians diagnosed with cancer will survive at least 5 years after their diagnosis.

• At the beginning of 2009, there were about 838,724 Canadians living with a cancer that had been diagnosed in the previous 10 years.

Printed: 13 august 2013

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