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. 2023 Sep 19;129(10):1558–1568. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02422-8

Table 1.

The number of YLL and total observed number of cancer deaths (NC) for 17 cancer sites and all cancers combined (C00-C97).

YLL Death
1988–1992 1993–1997 1998–2002 2003–2007 2008–2012 2013–2017 1988–1992 1993–1997 1998–2002 2003–2007 2008–2012 2013–2017
C00-C97: all cancer 2,167,348 2,110,708 2,091691 2,145,020 2,242,740 2,308,277 161,296 156,965 153,434 154,302 158,266 163,979
C33-C34: lung 519,925 479,068 456,565 466,144 497,918 500,609 39,342 36,360 33,963 33,747 35,156 35,485
C18-C20: bowel 230,208 212,514 199,697 201,196 207,848 213,535 19,198 17,622 16,241 15,821 15,836 16,133
C50: breast 260,074 240,825 222,809 213,262 205,203 196,885 15,411 14,113 13,034 12,423 11,794 11,435
C25: pancreas 85,394 82,706 88,174 99,064 114,770 126,851 6815 6530 6742 7282 8142 8969
C15: oesophagus 75,634 85,502 92,979 102,298 110,931 114,249 5912 6620 6991 7354 7617 7861
C61: prostate 75,127 80,360 82,776 89,918 96,645 103,727 8956 9622 9609 10,131 10,582 11,459
C22: liver 23,741 28,759 32,970 41,921 57,635 75,613 1669 2070 2349 2885 3887 5234
C56-C57.4: ovary 75,718 75,445 75,838 73,192 70,580 68,452 4369 4413 4525 4380 4220 4124
C91-C95: leukaemia 67,730 65,233 67,178 66,575 67,493 66,947 3993 3913 4103 4313 4546 4676
C82-C86: non-Hodgkin lymphoma 61,637 67,861 69,179 65,811 64,071 65,776 3996 4343 4569 4503 4529 4830
C64-C66,C68: kidney 42,212 44,711 47,038 53,778 59,416 63,520 2807 2968 3183 3627 4028 4436
C16: Stomach 115,659 95,010 81,654 70,484 64,395 60,777 9868 8030 6741 5615 4951 4476
C67: bladder 58,198 55,285 51,982 51,681 54,731 57,357 5450 5276 4935 4846 5051 5357
C43: melanoma skin cancer 24,487 28,643 30,820 34,627 38,945 40,120 1247 1520 1647 1851 2142 2364
C90: myeloma 28,860 29,591 30,432 32,446 33,795 36,680 2389 2413 2460 2591 2655 2963
C54-C55: uterus 21,204 18,987 20,173 23,024 27,829 33,037 1605 1437 1491 1636 1874 2227
C53: cervix 43,617 33,520 27,038 23,316 22,837 21,798 1986 1526 1229 1027 949 866

Cancer sites are ranked by the average estimated number of YLL in 2013–2017.