Statistics

The Finnish Cancer Registry regularly publishes tables on cancer incidence, mortality and prevelance, together with tabulations on cancer survival and screening activity statistics. The booklet pictured to the right is printed every second year, but the same tables (and many others) are updated about every two months and published on this website.

If needed, the Cancer Registry is able to produce special tables using any of the variables recorded in its data base, such as the stage at diagnosis or morphology. Special tables for small-areas such as municipalities are also possible. Prior discussion with the director of statistics or chief medical officer often helps in reaching the optimal definition of ad hoc tables.

NORDCAN is a data base that provides data on incidence and mortality concerning 41 major cancer diseases in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. NORDCAN can be downloaded free of charge at www.ancr.nu/nordcan.asp. A simplified web version of this tabulation tool opens up on page www-dep.iarc.fr/nordcan.htm.

International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO) has several different cancer databases (see www-dep.iarc.fr) and statistics from the USA can be found at seer.cancer.gov/.