TABLE 1.

Danish cleft cases born in 1936 through 1998 and followed in the Danish Cancer Registry during 1968 through 1998 for a total of 175,863 years

	Men		Women		Total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Total	4,851	100	3,242	100	8,093	100
Birth year
1936–1939	157	3.2	111	3.4	268	3.3
1940–1949	624	12.9	437	13.5	1,061	13.1
1950–1959	705	14.5	467	14.4	1,172	14.5
1960–1969	942	19.4	585	18.0	1,527	18.9
1970–1979	898	18.5	573	17.7	1,471	18.2
1980–1989	748	15.4	512	15.8	1,260	15.6
1990–1998	777	16.0	557	17.2	1,334	16.5
Diagnosis
Cleft lip	1,506	31.0	836	25.8	2,342	28.9
Cleft lip + cleft palate	2,101	43.3	934	28.8	3,035	37.5
Cleft palate	1,244	25.6	1,472	45.4	2,716	33.6
Nonsyndromic	4,502	92.8	2,933	90.5	7,435	91.9
Syndromic	349	7.2	309	9.5	658	8.1