Table 1.
Epidemiological data used to calculate Disability-Adjusted Life Years
| CANCER SITE (ICD-10 code) | SEX | MORTALITY (number of deaths) * | INCIDENCE (number of new cases) † | DURATION (years) ‡ |
DISABILITY (range 0–1) § |
| Bladder (C67) | Males | 3438 | 12720 | 4.2 | 0.24 |
| Females | 804 | 1750 | 3.7 | 0.31 | |
| Brain (C71) | Males | 1331 | 1954 | 1.5 | 0.64 |
| Females | 1046 | 287 | 1.4 | 0.66 | |
| Breast (C50) | Males | 59 | - | - | - |
| Females | 6206 | 15979 | 4.3 | 0.38 | |
| Colon and rectum | Males | 6958 | 14204 | 3.4 | 0.37 |
| (C18-C21) | Females | 5740 | 11461 | 3.5 | 0.36 |
| Gall bladder (C23-C24) | Males | 517 | 696 | 1.6 | 0.46 |
| Females | 1000 | 1542 | 1.4 | 0.49 | |
| Hodgkin's disease (C81) | Males | 170 | 890 | 4.9 | 0.24 |
| Females | 135 | 528 | 4.9 | 0.25 | |
| Kidney (C64-C66, C68) | Males | 1184 | 1441 | 3.7 | 0.30 |
| Females | 636 | 1189 | 3.7 | 0.30 | |
| Leukaemias (C91-C95) | Males | 1750 | 2436 | 3.6 | 0.37 |
| Females | 1386 | 1852 | 3.6 | 0.36 | |
| Liver (C22) | Males | 2997 | 3081 | 1.1 | 0.38 |
| Females | 1621 | 1309 | 0.9 | 0.45 | |
| Lung (C33-C34) | Males | 16629 | 16690 | 1.4 | 0.68 |
| Females | 2056 | 2131 | 1.6 | 0.67 | |
| Melanoma (C43) | Males | 426 | 1283 | 3.9 | 0.22 |
| Females | 339 | 1785 | 4.6 | 0.19 | |
| Myeloma (C90) | Males | 827 | 795 | 3.4 | 0.27 |
| Females | 863 | 769 | 5.5 | 0.24 | |
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | Males | 1341 | 3253 | 4.2 | 0.31 |
| (C82-C85, C96) | Females | 1211 | 2209 | 4.2 | 0.31 |
| Oesophagus (C15) | Males | 1675 | 1512 | 1.4 | 0.76 |
| Females | 260 | 257 | 1.6 | 0.78 | |
| Ovary (C56-C57) | Females | 1759 | 2997 | 3.1 | 0.34 |
| Pancreas (C25) | Males | 2231 | 1919 | 0.7 | 0.64 |
| Females | 2117 | 1675 | 0.7 | 0.63 | |
| Prostate (C61) | Males | 5894 | 13212 | 3.1 | 0.43 |
| Stomach (C16) | Males | 4038 | 2896 | 2.3 | 0.62 |
| Females | 2592 | 3454 | 2.0 | 0.60 | |
| Thyroid (C73) | Males | 116 | 456 | 4.6 | 0.22 |
| Females | 209 | 1278 | 4.7 | 0.22 | |
| Uterus and cervix (C53-C55) | Females | 1975 | 7164 | 4.2 | 0.26 |
| Other malignant neoplasms | Males | 7137 | |||
| Females | 3179 | ||||
ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.
* Source: National Institute of Statistics Spain (INE). National cause-of-death register, year 2000.
† Source: estimated from incidence data from regional population-based cancer registries.
‡ Source: estimated from relative survival data from the EUROCARE-3 study. Data are averages of duration in patients who die of cancer and in patients cured, weighted by the cure rate.
§Source: ref. 16, 17. Data are averages of the disability weight of each disease stage, weighted by its duration and then by the cure rate.
Spanish 2000 mid-year population: 19,778,785 males and 20,597,509 females (Source: National Institute of Statistics, INE).