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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Geospat Health. 2016 Apr 18;11(1):304. doi: 10.4081/gh.2016.304

Table 1.

Cancer sites, international classification of diseases for oncology, and numbers of tumours diagnosed in the 2005-2009 period and included in the dataset.

Cancer site (ICD-O-3 classification according to Fritz et al., 2000) Tumours 2005-2009 (n)
Prostate (C61) 78,162
Female breast (C50) 72,296
Lung and bronchus (C34) 67,217
Colon and rectum (C18-C20, C26.0) 49,801
Bladder, including in situ (C67) 25,134
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (morphologies 9590-9596, 9670-9671, 9673, 9675, 9678-9680, 9684, 9687, 9689-9691, 9695, 9698-9702, 9705, 9708-9709, 9714-9719, 9727-9729; 9823, 9827 except where site is C42.0, C42.1 or C42.4) 22,279
Uterus (C54-C55) 17,194
Kidney and renal pelvis (C64-C65) 16,371
Thyroid (C73) 15,109
Leukaemia (morphologies 9733, 9742, 9800-9949, 9963-9964) 14,091
Pancreas (C25) 13,927
Oral cavity and pharynx, excluding nasopharynx (C00-C10, C12-C14) 10,799
Stomach (C16) 9285
Liver and intrahepatic bile duct (C22) 8342
Ovary (C56) 7582
Brain and other nervous system (C70-C72) 6714
Oesophagus (C15) 5467
Larynx (C32) 4179
Soft tissue (C38.0, C47, C49) 3385
Testis (C62) 2690
Bone and joint (C40-C41) 1026
Mesothelioma (morphologies 9050-9055) 979
Nasal cavity and nasopharynx (C11, C30-C31) 689

ICD-O-3, International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (third edition).