Cancer Research UK: CancerStats
- Abstract
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Cancer Research UK presents the latest UK cancer statistics and information on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, incidence, mortality, survival, inequalities, screening and molecular biology and genetics of cancer.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Causes, diagnosis, treatment, screening, mortality, survival, incidence
- Variables
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Number of cases and deaths, incidence and mortality rates, age at death, estimate of lifetime risk, prevalence
- Keywords
- Cancer, incidence, mortality, survival, smoking, breast cancer, oral cancer, bowel cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, leukaemia, cervical cancer, liver cancer, genetic inheritance, risk
- Identifier Variables
- Country
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Disease Area
- Cancer
- Data Available
- Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Cancer research UK
- Data Type
- Condition specific
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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All diagnosed cancer patients in the UK
- Availability
- Cancer Research UK
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/
- Contact
- Tel: 02071216699, supporter.services@cancer.org.uk
- Publications
- Forrest LM, et al. An evaluation of the impact of a multidisciplinary team, in a single centre, on treatment and survival in patients with inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer. British Journal of Cancer 2005; 93: 977 – 978