Table 2.
All soft-tissue sarcoma cases, incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants in nine German states, by registry.
| Federal state registries with at least 90% completeness | 2003–2012a | 2012 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | IR | Cases | Populationb | IR | 95% CI | |
| Bavaria | 6,045 | 5.89 | 620 | 10,430,583 | 5.94 | (5.49–6.43) |
| Bremen | 365 | 6.55 | 33 | 555,794 | 5.94 | (4.09–8.34) |
| Hamburg | 850 | 5.75 | 70 | 1,460,601 | 4.79 | (3.74–6.06) |
| Lower Saxony | 3,806 | 5.87 | 361 | 6,452,746 | 5.60 | (5.03–6.20) |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 7,061 | 6.02 | 926 | 14,617,533 | 6.34 | (5.93–6.76) |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 2,252 | 6.78 | 182 | 3,340,484 | 5.45 | (4.69–6.30) |
| Saarland | 714 | 8.24 | 75 | 849,874 | 8.83 | (6.94–11.06) |
| Saxony | 2,277 | 6.28 | 263 | 3,484,777 | 7.55 | (6.66–8.52) |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 1,407 | 6.06 | 105 | 2,337,981 | 4.49 | (3.67–5.44) |
| Total | 24,777 | 6.10 | 2,635 | 43,530,373 | 6.05 | (5.82–6.29) |
CI: confidence interval; IR: incidence rate; a2006–2012 for North Rhine-Westphalia since this state joined the registry in 2006; bpopulation comprises those aged 18 years or older on December 31, 2012; the year-specific population of each state was used for each year's rate calculation, but only 2012 population data are displayed in the table.