1. Selected Common Cancers, Percentage Change in European Age-Standardised Mortality Rates, Persons, UK,
*Brain and central nervous system (CNS) tumours only includes invasive brain tumours (C70-C72)
**Female breast cancer
***Bowel cancer including anal cancers (C18-C21)
****There is no standard definition of oral cancer and these mortality projections use a different combination of ICD codes to those used for the incidence projections.
The definition used here includes cancers of the lip, tongue, mouth, parotid and salivary glands, tonsil, oropharynx, nasopharynx, piriform sinus, hypopharynx and
other and ill-defined sites of the lip, oral cavity and pharynx (C00-C14).
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