Table 2.
Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality of cases in the National Cancer Patient Registry-Colorectal Cancer, 2008 to 2013, by sex and ethnicity
| Characteristic | Incidence (/100,000) |
Mortality (/100,000) |
Mortality/Incidence ratio |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Male | Female | Overall | Male | Female | Overall | Male | Female | |
| Overall | 21.32 | 24.16 | 18.14 | 9.79 | 11.46 | 8.05 | 0.46 | 0.47 | 0.44 |
| Ethnicity | |||||||||
| Malay | 18.95 | 21.79 | 16.09 | 9.56 | 11.56 | 7.57 | 0.50 | 0.53 | 0.47 |
| Chinese | 27.35 | 30.77 | 23.22 | 11.85 | 13.47 | 10.07 | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.43 |
| Indian | 17.55 | 21.43 | 13.71 | 7.08 | 9.63 | 4.78 | 0.40 | 0.45 | 0.35 |