Australia - Tasmania Cancer Incidence and Mortality Report 1998
General Info
Original or alternative title
Cancer in Tasmania, Incidence and Mortality 1998
Coverage type
Subnational
Time period covered
January, 1998 - December, 1998
Series or system
Data type
Disease registry:
Subnationally representative
Summary
This report provides incidence and mortality tables for new cases, deaths, and crude, cumulative, and age standardized rates based on 1998 data from the Tasmanian Cancer Registry. The tables are broken down by sex and 5 year age groups and cancers are coded in ICD-9. The report also highlights bladder, female breast, and ovary cancer data, provides regional distributions of cancer, and demonstrates cancer trends from 1980-1998.
Incidence of non-melanocytic skin cancer is not recorded but mortality numbers are provided.
Additional cancer data can be requested from the Tasmanian Cancer Registry.
Keywords
Bladder cancer, Brain and nervous system cancers, Breast cancer, Cancers, Cervix uteri cancer, Colon and rectum cancers, Corpus uteri cancer, Gallbladder and biliary tract cancers, Hodgkin lymphoma, Incidence, Kidney and other urinary organ cancers, Larynx cancer, Leukemia, Life expectancy, Liver cancer, Melanoma, Mortality, Mouth cancer, Multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Oesophagus cancer, Ovary cancer, Pancreas cancer, Pharynx cancers, Population, Prostate cancer, Skin cancers, Stomach cancer, Testicular cancer, Thyroid cancer
Citation
Contributors
Publication year
2001
Suggested citation
Menzies Center for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania (Australia), Tasmanian Cancer Registry. Australia - Tasmania Cancer Incidence and Mortality Report 1998. Hobart, Australia: Menzies Center for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania (Australia), 2001.