Table 1.
Estimated lung cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2016.
| Area | Sex | Incidence |
Mortality |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Prop. | Rates | ASIR | Rank | Deaths | Prop. | Rates | ASMR | Rank | ||
| (%) | (1/105) | (1/105) | (%) | (1/105) | (1/105) | ||||||
| All areas | Both sexes | 828,100 | 20.4 | 59.9 | 36.5 | 1 | 657,000 | 27.2 | 47.5 | 28.1 | 1 |
| Men | 549,800 | 24.6 | 77.6 | 49.8 | 1 | 454,700 | 29.7 | 64.2 | 40.6 | 1 | |
| Women | 278,300 | 15.2 | 41.3 | 23.7 | 2 | 202,300 | 22.9 | 30.0 | 16.2 | 1 | |
| Urban areas | Both sexes | 502,400 | 20.1 | 63.4 | 37.1 | 1 | 396,400 | 27.7 | 50.0 | 28.3 | 1 |
| Men | 331,300 | 24.5 | 81.9 | 50.3 | 1 | 274,200 | 30.4 | 67.8 | 40.9 | 1 | |
| Women | 171,100 | 14.9 | 44.1 | 24.4 | 2 | 122,200 | 23.2 | 31.5 | 16.3 | 1 | |
| Rural areas | Both sexes | 325,700 | 20.8 | 55.2 | 35.5 | 1 | 260,600 | 26.5 | 44.2 | 27.8 | 1 |
| Men | 218,500 | 24.7 | 72.0 | 49.0 | 1 | 180,500 | 28.7 | 59.5 | 40.0 | 1 | |
| Women | 107,300 | 15.7 | 37.5 | 22.7 | 1 | 80,100 | 22.6 | 28.0 | 16.2 | 1 | |
| Eastern areas | Both sexes | 332,900 | 20.0 | 64.1 | 36.4 | 1 | 260,600 | 27.3 | 50.2 | 27.3 | 1 |
| Men | 211,800 | 23.9 | 80.4 | 48.0 | 1 | 175,800 | 29.5 | 66.7 | 39.0 | 1 | |
| Women | 121,100 | 15.5 | 47.3 | 25.6 | 2 | 84,800 | 23.8 | 33.1 | 16.5 | 1 | |
| Middle areas | Both sexes | 268,200 | 20.2 | 57.8 | 36.2 | 1 | 218,400 | 27.1 | 47.1 | 28.8 | 1 |
| Men | 183,200 | 25.3 | 76.6 | 50.8 | 1 | 153,700 | 30.3 | 64.3 | 42.1 | 1 | |
| Women | 85,000 | 14.0 | 37.8 | 22.2 | 2 | 64,800 | 21.6 | 28.8 | 16.2 | 1 | |
| Western areas | Both sexes | 227,100 | 21.3 | 56.9 | 36.9 | 1 | 177,900 | 27.2 | 44.6 | 28.3 | 1 |
| Men | 154,900 | 24.9 | 75.4 | 51.3 | 1 | 125,200 | 29.3 | 61.0 | 41.0 | 1 | |
| Women | 72,200 | 16.3 | 37.4 | 22.8 | 1 | 52,700 | 23.3 | 27.3 | 15.9 | 1 | |
Abbreviations: ASIR, age-standardized incidence rate using Segi’s population; ASMR, age-standardized mortality rate using Segi’s population.