TABLE 1.
Colorectal cancer mortality counts and rates (per 100,000) according to site, sex and age, 1985 to 2009
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| Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | |
| Overall | 3411 | 23.4 | 3838 | 26.9 | 1695 | 11.6 | 2313 | 16.2 | 1262 | 8.6 | 1146 | 8.0 |
| <50 | 139 | 1.4 | 169 | 1.6 | 84 | 0.8 | 106 | 1.0 | 44 | 0.4 | 47 | 0.4 |
| 50–69 | 906 | 32.1 | 1348 | 49.7 | 515 | 18.2 | 863 | 31.8 | 317 | 11.2 | 369 | 13.6 |
| ≥70 | 2366 | 155.7 | 2321 | 228.8 | 1096 | 72.1 | 1344 | 132.5 | 901 | 59.3 | 730 | 72.0 |