Table 3.

Annual percentage change of world age-standardized incidence rate by topographic groups, histologic types. FRANCIM network data 2000–2013 (11 registries)

	n	Joinpoint	APC	95% CI
Sarcomas by topographic groups
Soft Tissue	3766		0.8	(−0.4; 2.0)
Bone	1193		1.2	(−0.4; 2.9)
Skin	1062		-2.0a	(−3.5; −0.4)
Viscera tumors organs
Gastro-intestinal organs	1053		1.5	(−0.3; 3.3)
Female genital organs	297	2000–2005	4.2	(−4.2; 13.2)
	376	2005–2013	−6.7a	(−10.4; −2.7)
Other visceral organs	540		−1.7	(−5.1; 1.8)
Other anatomic sites	171		1.0	(−3.4; 5.6)
Sarcomas by histologic groups
Unclassified sarcoma	1513		−1.6	(−3.6; 0.3)
Leiomyosarcoma	1281		−2.6a	(−4.6; −0.6)
GIST	822		3.7a	(0.8; 6.8)
Liposarcoma	713		1.3	(−1.1; 3.7)
Dermatofibrosarcoma	496		0.6	(−1.4; 2.7)
Chondrosarcoma	454		4.1a	(1.6; 6.6)
Kaposi sarcoma	419		−4.1a	(−6.8; −1.4)
Osteosarcoma	359		−0.6	(−3.7; 2.6)
Angiosarcoma	335		2.2	(−1.2; 5.7)
Ewing sarcoma	330		−0.2	(−4.1; 3.8)
Rhabdomyosarcoma	286		−1.1	(−6.2; 4.4)
Others (with fewer than 20 cases)	226		4.1	(−1.3; 9.8)
Synovial sarcoma	219		1.2	(−4.2; 6.9)
Nerve Sheath Tumors	191		−0.1	(−4.3; 4.4)
Myxofibrosarcoma	183		8.2a	(0.4; 16.6)
Endometrial stromal sarcoma	173		−3.7	(−7.4; 0.1)
Fibrosarcoma	151		−9.2a	(−15.7; −2.3)
Chordoma	126		0.8	(−4.8; 6.6)
Solitary fibrous tumor. Malignant	102		12.2a	(6.2; 18.5)
Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma	55		–	–
Myoepithelial carcinoma	24		–	–
Total	3359	2000–2005	3.6a	(0.2; 7.1)
	5099	2005–2013	−1.4	(−2.9; 0.1)

Note. Joinpoint = years when statistically significant changes in incidence trend occurred

APC Annual Percent Change, CI Confidence Interval

^aIndicates that the APC is significantly different from 0 at the alpha = 0.05 level