Cancer in young adults in Canada : Cancer chez les jeunes adultes au Canada

A registry exists in every province and territory in Canada, and all have good quality data from at least the early 1980s.10 Canada has a history of using its cancer registry data for monitoring the occurrence of cancer and for projecting the future burden of cancer for Canada and its regions. [...] Specific objectives The primary objectives of this monograph are to: 1. identify and describe the most important forms of cancer in young men and young women aged 20–44 years in Canada in a recent decade, 1990–1999; 2. document time trends in incidence and mortality between 1983 and 1999 for these cancers and for important sub groupings thereof; 3. interpret the patterns and trends; and 4. recomme [...] If cancers of the breast, cervix, ovary and uterus are excluded for women and cancer of the testis for men, the number of incident cancers and the incidence rate are slightly higher for men (33,033 and 53.8 per 100,000, respectively) than for women (31,380 and 49.3 per 100,000, respectively). [...] Cancer incidence is lowest in the North, where 18% of the population belongs to one of the First Nation groups, who historically have experienced lower rates of cancer than the general population.112 Another 29% are Inuit, who have similar overall rates of cancer to the non-Aboriginal population.126 12 Cancer Care Ontario: Cancer in Young Adults in Canada (CYAC) OVERVIEW Figure 3 All cancers Age-s [...] The rise and fall of incidence rates in males seem most affected by the trends in non-Hodgkin lymphoma and testicular cancer, while the impact of thyroid cancer in females can be seen when the sex-specific cancers are removed in Figure 12.