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. 2021 Jul 8;21:779. doi: 10.1186/s12885-021-08501-4

Table 4.

Incident cases and percentages of cancers by rarity, sex, age, remoteness, socioeconomic and Aboriginal status

Rare Less Common Common
Total 13,995 (21.5%) 17,462 (26.9%) 33,493 (51.6%)
Sex
 Male 8085 (22.4%) 9714 (27.0%) 18,245 (50.6%)
 Female 5910 (20.4%) 7748 (26.8%) 15,248 (52.8%)
Age (years)
 0- ≤ 20 476 (77.2%) 114 (18.5%) 25 (4.1%)
 20- ≤ 35 872 (45.2%) 443 (23.0%) 614 (31.8%)
 35- ≤ 45 924 (27.1%) 729 (21.4%) 1753 (51.5%)
 45- ≤ 55 1749 (21.6%) 1756 (21.6%) 4608 (56.8%)
 55- ≤ 65 2871 (19.9%) 3132 (21.7%) 8428 (58.4%)
 65- ≤ 75 3325 (18.5%) 4406 (24.5%) 10,268 (57.0%)
 75- ≤ 85 2624 (20.6%) 4194 (32.9%) 5938 (46.6%)
  > 85 1154 (20.2%) 2688 (47.1%) 1859 (32.6%)
Remoteness
 Major Cities 10,533 (21.3%) 13,470 (27.2%) 25,516 (51.5%)
 Regional 2686 (21.6%) 3186 (25.7%) 6543 (52.7%)
 Remote 772 (25.7%) 804 (26.8%) 1429 (47.6%)
 Not mapped < 5a < 5a 5
IRSD quintile
 1- Most Disadvantaged 1856 (23.5%) 2329 (29.5%) 3722 (47.1%)
 2 3819 (22.0%) 4706 (27.1%) 8818 (50.8%)
 3 2577 (21.7%) 3280 (27.7%) 6001 (50.6%)
 4 2267 (22.5%) 2575 (25.6%) 5225 (51.9%)
 5 – Least Disadvantaged 3469 (19.5%) 4568 (25.7%) 9715 (54.7%)
 Not mapped 7 < 5a 12
Aboriginality
 Aboriginal 365 (38.3%) 290 (30.5%) 297 (31.2%)
 Non-Aboriginal 13,554 (21.3%) 17,116 (26.9%) 33,038 (51.9%)
 Not mapped 76 (26.2%) 56 (19.3%) 158 (54.5%)

IRSD Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage; a < 5: Suppressed case numbers as cases < 5 [33]