Canadian cancer statistics 2011 : Featuring colorectal cancer

Review and analysis The Chronic Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Division of the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CCDPC), part of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), conducted the data analysis for most of the sections. [...] Canadian Cancer Society: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2011 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1. Incidence and mortality by cancer type 15 2. Incidence and mortality by geographic region 20 3. Incidence and mortality by age and sex 28 4. Time trends in incidence and mortality 34 5. Incidence, mortality and survival in children and youth (0–19 years) 53 6. Probability of developing or dying from cancer 57 7. F [...] True differences in incidence or mortality rates among provinces and territories may be due to any one of several factors, including the following: variation in the prevalence of cancer risk factors (e.g., higher historic smoking rates in Quebec and Atlantic Canada as the likely cause of higher rates of lung cancer) variation in early detection of cancer because of different rates of participa [...] Analysis by: Chronic Disease Surveillance and Monitoring Division, CCDPC, Public Health Agency of Canada Data sources: Canadian Cancer Registry and Canadian Vital Statistics Death databases at Statistics Canada Canadian Cancer Society: Canadian Cancer Statistics 2011 33 4. TIME TRENDS IN INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY The numbers of new cases and deaths are important measures of cancer burden on the Cana [...] Figures 4.3 and 4.4 show the relative contributions to the changes in the total numbers of new cases and deaths that can be attributed to changes in cancer risk or diagnostic practices, population size and aging of the population.