Bladder Cancer
Data analyses and reports
- Detailed incidence and mortality data, lifetime risk, prevalence and survival statistics: Cancer of the bladder.
- A summary table of the main statistics for bladder cancer.
Below are the most recently updated data. Please note:
- Within each page some files are quite large and may take a few minutes to download.
- You may need to use the drop-down menus within the spreadsheets to define your selections of 'Area of Residence', 'Sex', and 'Cancer site/type' to find the data that you require.
Cancer of the bladder: ICD-10 C67
Incidence:
Annual incidence 
[728KB] (most recent 25 years) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of incidence [170KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Mortality:
Annual mortality [758KB] (most recent 25 years) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of mortality [169KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Survival:
Survival [47KB] (by age and sex) at 1, 3, 5 & 10 years after diagnosis (1983 onwards)
Survival summary 
[450KB] and interpretation at 1 & 5 years after diagnosis (1983 onwards)
Prevalence:
Cancer prevalence [48KB]
Lifetime risk:
Lifetime risk [45KB] of cancer by sex and age
Deprivation:
Incidence and mortality by deprivation category [29KB]
Summary statistics for bladder cancer
| Scotland | Males | Females |
|---|---|---|
| Rank - incidence | 6 | 14 |
| Rank - mortality | 7 | 9 |
| Percentage frequency of all cancers | 3.9% | 1.5% |
| Number of new cases diagnosed in 2010 | 542 | 236 |
| Number of deaths recorded in 2010 | 269 | 171 |
| Change in incidence from 2000 to 2010 | -19.6% | -10.4% |
| Change in mortality from 2000 to 2010 | -18.3% | -5.8% |
| 1 year relative survival for patients diagnosed between 2003 and 2007 | 74.4% | 61.2% |
| 5 year relative survival for patients diagnosed between 2003 and 2007 | 55.1% | 37.7% |
Notes:
1. Over the period 1996 to 1999 there was a marked reduction in the numbers of registrations of invasive bladder cancer. This is likely to reflect a change in coding practice recommended by the European Network of Cancer Registries (ENCR) and subsequently by the United Kingdom Association of Cancer Registries (UKACR) whereby some cases classified and coded previously as invasive bladder cancer (ICD-10 C67) are now coded as carcinoma in situ of the bladder (D09.0) or neoplasms of uncertain or unknown behaviour of the bladder (D41.4).
2. Survival figures are not age standardised.
3. Change in incidence and mortality is estimated by Poisson regression.
