Incidence and cost of anal, penile, vaginal and vulvar cancer in Denmark

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Table 1 Incidence of anal, penile, vaginal and vulvar cancer and precancerous lesions

	Gender	Year	No. of cases	Mean age (years)	Medi-an age (years)	Min. age (years)	Max. age (years)
Anal cancer (ICD10 code: C21)	Male	2004	27	61	59	33	89
	Female	2004	64	68	68	34	97
	Male	2005	25	62	64	35	85
	Female	2005	63	62	61	33	92
	Male	2006	48	59	59	18	93
	Female	2006	74	63	59	40	97
	Male	2007	42	64	62	37	91
	Female	2007	75	59	57	33	93
		Average no. cases 2004-2007	105	62
		Incidence per 100,000 persons	1.9
		Incidence per 100,000 males	1.3
		Incidence per 100,000 females	2.6
		% of patients under 65 years	60.5%
Anal precancerous lesions, average no. of cases/year			242	52	-	-	-
Penile cancer (ICD10 code: C60)	Male	2004	39	67	66	40	93
		2005	47	68	66	38	88
		2006	46	67	66	25	94
		2007	55	68	69	40	93
		Average no. cases 2004-2007	47	67
		Incidence per 100,000 males	1.7
		% of patients under 65 years	44.9%
Penile precancerous lesions, average no. of cases/year			86	60	-	-	-
Vaginal cancer (ICD10 code: C52)	Female	2004	26	74	76	46	99
		2005	15	74	75	53	92
		2006	25	76	78	49	94
		2007	26	67	73	37	95
		Average no. cases 2004-2007	23	73
		Incidence per 100,000 females	0.9
		% of patients under 65 years	29.7%
Vaginal precancerous lesions, average no. of cases/year			85	55	-	-	-
Vulvar cancer (ICD10 code: C51)	Female	2004	99	70	74	30	96
		2005	93	69	70	30	96
		2006	104	68	70	23	96
		2007	93	70	71	27	103
		Average no. cases 2004-2007	97	69
		Incidence per 100,000 females	3.6
		% of patients under 65 years	37.5%
Vulvar precancerous lesions, average no. of cases/year			522	50	-	-	-

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