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. 2024 Jul 23;9(7):103635. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2024.103635

Table 2.

Complete cancer prevalence (cases, proportion per 100 000, percentage of all prevalent cases, and annual variation) by cancer typea and sex in Italy, 2030

Cancer type Cases
Proportion per 100 000
Percentage of all prevalent cases
Annual variation 2018-2030 (%)
All Men Women All Men Women All Men Women Cases Proportions
Alltypesbut skinnon-melanoma 4 012 376 1 759 260 2 253 116 6923 6196 7621 100 100 100 1.5 1.8
Breast 1 053 633 1 053 633 3564 3564 26.3 46.8 2.2 2.6
Prostate 559 903 559 903 1972 1972 14.0 31.8 0.0 2.3 2.5
Colon–rectum 469 257 238 751 230 506 810 841 780 11.7 13.6 10.2 0.9 1.2
Bladder 320 458 249 892 70 566 553 880 239 8.0 14.2 3.1 1.0 1.3
Thyroid 280 787 65 961 214 826 484 232 727 7.0 3.7 9.5 3.1 3.4
Skin melanoma 270 175 132 158 138 017 466 465 467 6.7 7.5 6.1 3.6 3.9
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 189 876 98 269 91 607 328 346 310 4.7 5.6 4.1 2.2 2.5
Kidney 174 689 114 706 59 983 301 404 203 4.4 6.5 2.7 2.0 2.3
Corpus uteri 147 560 147 560 499 499 3.7 6.5 1.6 2.0
Lung 117 956 61 765 56 191 204 218 190 2.9 3.5 2.5 1.2 1.5
Leukaemia 88 769 49 149 39 620 153 173 134 2.2 2.8 1.8 0.1 0.4
Testis 69 043 69 043 243 243 1.7 3.9 0.0 2.0 2.2
Hodgkin’s lymphoma 67 900 33 561 34 339 117 118 116 1.7 1.9 1.5 1.5 1.8
Oral cavity 66 946 40 682 26 264 116 143 89 1.7 2.3 1.2 1.9 2.2
Stomach 65 004 36 277 28 727 112 128 97 1.6 2.1 1.3 −1.8 −1.5
Soft-tissue sarcoma 55 174 23 263 31 911 95 82 108 1.4 1.3 1.4 0.7 1.0
Ovary 53 075 53 075 180 180 1.3 2.4 0.1 0.4
Cervix uteri 46 332 46 332 157 157 1.2 2.1 −1.1 −0.8
Larynx 36 908 31 178 5730 64 110 19 0.9 1.8 0.3 −2.3 −2.1
Multiple myeloma 36 817 19 303 17 514 64 68 59 0.9 1.1 0.8 1.2 1.5
Brain and central nervous system 35 995 21 813 14 182 62 77 48 0.9 1.2 0.6 −0.3 0.0
Pancreas 29 164 14 778 14 386 50 52 49 0.7 0.8 0.6 3.7 4.0
Liver 28 699 21 535 7164 50 76 24 0.7 1.2 0.3 −0.9 −0.6
Bone 16 088 8216 7872 28 29 27 0.4 0.5 0.3 1.4 1.7
Small intestine 13 528 7676 5852 23 27 20 0.3 0.4 0.3 3.1 3.4
Vagina and vulva 12 587 12 587 43 43 0.3 0.6 0.7 1.1
Gallbladder 11 469 6052 5417 20 21 18 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.7 1.0
Oesophagus 7836 6084 1752 14 21 6 0.2 0.3 0.1 2.6 2.9
a

Cancer types with a prevalence of ≥10 per 100 000 are presented, sorted by the number of prevalent cases. The definition of the cancer entities is reported in Toffolutti et al.10