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2011-2012 Canadian Cancer Statistics
2012 Statistics
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Figures in PowerPoint
Figures 1.1–3.2 – incidence, mortality
Figures 4.1–4.8 – incidence, mortality, trends, age-standardized incidence rates, age-standardized mortality rates
Supplementary figures – incidence, mortality, annual percent change, lifetime probability of developing or dying from cancer, survival
Media release 2012
2011 Statistics
Special topic: colorectal cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Children and youth (0–19 years)
Probability of developing or dying from cancer
5-year relative survival
Prevalence
Additional section – not included in the publication
Potential years of life lost due to cancer
Figures in PowerPoint
Figures 1.1–3.2 – incidence, mortality
Figures 4.1–4.8 – incidence, mortality, trends, age-standardized incidence rates, age-standardized mortality rates
Figures 5.1–8.2 – childhood cancer, survival, prevalence
Figures 9.1–9.9 – colorectal cancer
Supplementary figures – incidence, mortality, annual percent change, survival
Media release 2011
2005–2010 Canadian Cancer Statistics
2010 Statistics
Special topic: end-of-life care
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Esophageal cancer
Kidney cancer
Figures in PowerPoint
Figures 1.1–4.2 – incidence, mortality
Figures 4.3–4.9 – incidence, mortality, trends, age-standardized incidence rates, age-standardized mortality rates
Figures 5.1–6.2 – esophageal cancer, kidney cancer
Figures 6.3–7.3 – kidney cancer, end-of-life care
Supplementary figures – incidence, mortality, annual percent change, survival
Media release 2010
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2009 Statistics
Special topic: cancer in adolescents and young adults
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Childhood cancer
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Survival
Prevalence
Additional sections – not included in the publication
Potential years of life lost due to cancer
Cancer in children and youth (0–19 years)
Classification of cancers in young adults (15–29 years):
Using International Classification of Childhood Cancer, Third Edition and SEER site recodes
Using International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision
As epithelial and non-epithelial types using ICDO-3 histology and topography
Figures in PowerPoint
Figures 1.1–3.2 – incidence, mortality
Figures 4.1–4.5 – incidence, mortality, trends
Figures 4.6–5.1 – age-standardized incidence rates, age-standardized mortality rates, childhood cancer
Figures 7.1–9.3 – survival, prevalence, cancer in adolescents and young adults
Media release 2009
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2008 Statistics
Special topic: childhood cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Prevalence
Survival
Additional sections – not included in the publication
Potential years of life lost due to cancer
Figures in PowerPoint
Figures 1.1–12 –incidence, mortality, age-standardized incidence rates, age-standardized mortality rates, trends, survival, childhood cancer
Media release 2008
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2007 Statistics
Special topic: breast cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Prevalence
Survival
Childhood cancer
Media release 2007
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2006 Statistics
Special topic: progress in cancer control – screening
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Prevalence
Survival
Childhood cancer
Media release 2006
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2005 Statistics
Special topic: progress in cancer prevention – modifiable risk factors
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Prevalence
Childhood cancer
Media release 2005
2000–2004 Canadian Cancer Statistics
2004 Statistics
Special topics: international variation in cancer incidence (1993–1997) and economic burden of cancer in Canada (1998)
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Prevalence
Childhood cancer
Media release 2004
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2003 Statistics
Special topic: non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Prevalence
Childhood cancer
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2002 Statistics
Special topics: cancer in young adults and 5-year relative survival (1992)
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Childhood cancer
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2001 Statistics
Special topic: colorectal cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Childhood cancer
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2000 Statistics
Special topic: progress in cancer control
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Childhood cancer
1995–1999 Canadian Cancer Statistics
1999 Statistics
Special topics: factors contributing to the population burden of cancer incidence and mortality, and a new national surveillance system for Canada
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Childhood cancer
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1998 Statistics
Special topic: international comparisons in cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Childhood cancer
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1997 Statistics
Special topic: 10 years of Canadian Cancer Statistics
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
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1996 Statistics
Special topics: prostate cancer, direct costs of cancer in Canada (1993) and evaluation of cancer estimates (1987–1991)
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Survival
Childhood cancer
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1995 Statistics
Special topics: cancer prevalence and colorectal cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Probability of developing and dying from cancer
Potential years of life lost
Survival
Childhood cancer
1990–1994 Canadian Cancer Statistics
1994 Statistics
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic distribution
Trends in incidence and mortality
Childhood cancer
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1993 Statistics
Special topic: female breast cancer
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Probability of developing cancer
Potential years of life lost
Survival
Trends in incidence and mortality
Childhood cancer
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1992 Statistics
Incidence
Mortality
Geographic, age and sex distribution
Probability of developing cancer
Potential years of life lost
Survival
Trends in incidence and mortality
Childhood cancer
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1991 Statistics
Special topics: smoking and lung cancer, and cancer in Inuits and Indians
Incidence
Mortality
Trends in incidence and mortality
Survival
Age and sex distribution
Childhood cancer
Potential years of life lost
Probability of developing cancer
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1990 Statistics
Special topics: female breast and genital cancers, Hodgkin’s disease and testicular cancer, cancer mortality by income, economic cost of illness in Canada and cancer control
Incidence
Mortality
Trends in incidence and mortality
Survival
Age and sex distribution
Childhood cancer
Mortality for leading causes of death
Probability of developing cancer
1987–1989 Canadian Cancer Statistics
1989 Statistics
Special topic: cancer incidence and mortality – international comparison
Incidence
Mortality
Trends in incidence and mortality
Survival
Age and sex distribution
Childhood cancer
Mortality for leading causes of death
Probability of developing cancer
Prevalence
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1988 Statistics
Special topics: tobacco consumption from smoking and mortality from lung cancer, and cancer mortality – international comparison
Incidence
Mortality
Trends in incidence and mortality
Survival
Age and sex distribution
Childhood cancer
Mortality for leading causes of death
Probability of developing cancer
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1987 Statistics
Incidence
Mortality
Survival
Probability of developing cancer