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Australia - Tasmania Cancer Incidence and Mortality Report 1995

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Cancer in Tasmania, Incidence and Mortality 1995
Geography 
Australia (AUS)
Tasmania
Coverage type 
Subnational
Time period covered 
01/1995 - 12/1995
Data type
Disease registry:
  • Subnationally representative
Summary 

This report provides incidence and mortality tables for new cases, deaths, as well as crude, cumulative, and age standardized rates based on 1995 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 cutaneous malignant melanoma data from 1978-1996 and provides regional distributions of cancers.

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.