World-Wide Cancer Mortality Trends

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  • Data description
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    • Years
    • Disease sites
    • Countries
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  • References
  • • Coloured Plots of Kroonenberg, Murakami, and Coebergh

Background for data

The cancer mortality data have been collated by Kurihara et al. (1989) from available files of the World Health Organization (WHO) except for those from the US which were derived from Vital Statistics of the United States (Kurihara et al. , 1989). The data were made available by courtesy of Prof. Hiroshi Ogawa, Aichi Mizuho University.

The data set consists of the age-adjusted biennial mortality rates (i.e. deaths per 100,000) in 43 countries (of the 46 mentioned in the original publication) for 17 cancer sites for women and 15 cancer sites for men over the years 1968 to 1985. The classification of the diseases was based on the International Classification of Diseases, ICD (1950, 1957,1967, 1977), and the relevant list numbers corresponding to each malignant neoplasm in the 6th to 9th Revision of the ICD, as well as the years when each Revision of the ICD was used in each country, can be found in Kurihara et al. (1989) Table B and C, respectively. "The total male and female population in 46 countries around 1950 (Dr. Segi's world population) was used as a standard population in calculating age-adjusted death rates. A [.] ten-year age-group was used (for calculating age-adjusted death rates) from 1968-69 to 1984-85" (Kurihara et al , 1984, p. vii). Table 1 gives a list of the cancer sites, and the countries are listed in Table 2.

Countries with unreliable or non-existing data, for example all African countries, were excluded. Independent estimates of the measurement errors across countries and sites were not available.

Data description

Source of the data

Kurihara M, Aoki K, Hisimachi S. (Eds.). Cancer Mortality Statistics in the World 1950-1985. Nagoya: University of Nagoya Press, 1989.

Separate data sets for men and women

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774 Rows

• 9 Years (Table 2) nested within 43 Countries (Table 4) with 2 rows per year.

10 Columns Disease sites (Table 3) Two physical records for each logical record.

• Total Mortality Rate + 17 Disease Sites (women)
  
• Total Moratlity Rate + 15 Disease Sites (men)

Missing values are blanks.

Input format: 9F8.2

Table 1

Start of the Female Data file

Note: For males only 16 values per logical record rather than 18

Table 2

9 Years: Biennial Rates

Table 3

Total Rate plus 17 Disease sites (for the male data Total Rate plus 15 Disease Sites)

Table 4

43 Countries

References

Coleman MP, Estève J, Damiecki P, Arslan A, Renard H. Trends in Cancer Incidence and Mortality . Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1993. IARC Scientific Publication No. 121.

Kurihara M, Aoki K, Hisimachi S, editors. Cancer Mortality Statistics in the World 1950-1985. Nagoya: University of Nagoya Press, 1989.

Kroonenberg^, P. M., Murakami, T., Coebergh, J. W. (2002). Added value of three-way methods for the analysis of mortality trends illustrated with world-wide female cancer mortality (1968-1985) Statistical Methods in Medical Research., 11, 275-292.
 
Coloured versions of plots in above paper. Word document (162Kb).

Muir CS, Waterhouse JAH, Mack, T, Powell, J. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents . Vol. V Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1987. IARC Scientific Publication No. 88.

Parkin DM, Muir CS, Whelan SL, Gao, YT, Ferlay J, Powell, J. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents . Vol. VI. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1992. IARC Scientific Publication No. 120.

Parkin DM, Whelan SL, Ferlay J, Raymond L, Young, J. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents . Vol. VII . Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1997. IARC Scientific Publication No. 143.

Waterhouse JAH, Muir CS, Shanmugaratnam K, Powell, J. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents . Vol IV. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1982. IARC Scientific Publication No. 42.

World Health Organization. International Classification of Disease: 6th Revision . Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 1950.

World Health Organization. International Classification of Disease: 7th Revision . Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 1957.

World Health Organization. International Classification of Disease: 8th Revision . Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 1967.

World Health Organization. International Classification of Disease: 9th Revision . Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 1977.