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Table 1 Epidemiological data used to calculate Disability-Adjusted Life Years

From: Burden of disease due to cancer in Spain

CANCER SITE (ICD-10 code)

SEX

MORTALITY (number of deaths) *

INCIDENCE (number of new cases) †

DURATION (years) ‡

DISABILITY

(range 0–1) §

Bladder (C67)

Males

3438

12720

4.2

0.24

 

Females

804

1750

3.7

0.31

Brain (C71)

Males

1331

1954

1.5

0.64

 

Females

1046

287

1.4

0.66

Breast (C50)

Males

59

-

-

-

 

Females

6206

15979

4.3

0.38

Colon and rectum

Males

6958

14204

3.4

0.37

(C18-C21)

Females

5740

11461

3.5

0.36

Gall bladder (C23-C24)

Males

517

696

1.6

0.46

 

Females

1000

1542

1.4

0.49

Hodgkin's disease (C81)

Males

170

890

4.9

0.24

 

Females

135

528

4.9

0.25

Kidney (C64-C66, C68)

Males

1184

1441

3.7

0.30

 

Females

636

1189

3.7

0.30

Leukaemias (C91-C95)

Males

1750

2436

3.6

0.37

 

Females

1386

1852

3.6

0.36

Liver (C22)

Males

2997

3081

1.1

0.38

 

Females

1621

1309

0.9

0.45

Lung (C33-C34)

Males

16629

16690

1.4

0.68

 

Females

2056

2131

1.6

0.67

Melanoma (C43)

Males

426

1283

3.9

0.22

 

Females

339

1785

4.6

0.19

Myeloma (C90)

Males

827

795

3.4

0.27

 

Females

863

769

5.5

0.24

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Males

1341

3253

4.2

0.31

(C82-C85, C96)

Females

1211

2209

4.2

0.31

Oesophagus (C15)

Males

1675

1512

1.4

0.76

 

Females

260

257

1.6

0.78

Ovary (C56-C57)

Females

1759

2997

3.1

0.34

Pancreas (C25)

Males

2231

1919

0.7

0.64

 

Females

2117

1675

0.7

0.63

Prostate (C61)

Males

5894

13212

3.1

0.43

Stomach (C16)

Males

4038

2896

2.3

0.62

 

Females

2592

3454

2.0

0.60

Thyroid (C73)

Males

116

456

4.6

0.22

 

Females

209

1278

4.7

0.22

Uterus and cervix (C53-C55)

Females

1975

7164

4.2

0.26

Other malignant neoplasms

Males

7137

   
 

Females

3179

   
  1. ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision.
  2. * Source: National Institute of Statistics Spain (INE). National cause-of-death register, year 2000.
  3. † Source: estimated from incidence data from regional population-based cancer registries.
  4. ‡ Source: estimated from relative survival data from the EUROCARE-3 study. Data are averages of duration in patients who die of cancer and in patients cured, weighted by the cure rate.
  5. §Source: ref. 16, 17. Data are averages of the disability weight of each disease stage, weighted by its duration and then by the cure rate.
  6. Spanish 2000 mid-year population: 19,778,785 males and 20,597,509 females (Source: National Institute of Statistics, INE).
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