Data analyses and reports

• Detailed incidence and mortality data, lifetime risk, prevalence and survival statistics:
  
  malignant melanoma of the skin
  non-melanoma skin cancer
  basal cell carcinoma
  squamous cell carcinoma
  
  
  
• A summary table of the main statistics for malignant melanoma of the skin.
  

• Cancer in Scotland Summary [264KB] is an overview of cancer in Scotland focusing on incidence, mortality and survival for the main cancer sites.
  
  
• A summary of incidence and mortality by ICD10 code [391KB].
  
  
• UK data are available in the Cancer Atlas of the UK and Ireland 1991-2000 and cancer cases and deaths in the UK during 2002-04.
  
  
• Cancer Research UK factsheets provide detailed analyses and interpretation of cancer data.
  
  
• Cancer Scenarios: Projections of cancer rates in Scotland (up to 2014) by site. An updated summary report Cancer incidence projections for Scotland (2001-2020) is also available.
  
  
• Incidence by Local Council Area: Scottish Local Authorities Compendium of Health Statistics.
  
  
  

Malignant melanoma of the skin: ICD-10 C43

Incidence:	Annual incidence[309KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of incidence[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Mortality:	Annual mortality[300KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of mortality[49KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Survival:	Survival[33KB] (by age and sex) at 1, 3, 5 & 10 years after diagnosis (1980 onwards)
	Survival summary [450KB] and interpretation at 1 & 5 years after diagnosis (1980 onwards)
Prevalence:	Cancer prevalence[17KB]
Lifetime risk:	Lifetime risk[16KB] of cancer by age and sex
Deprivation:	Chart [17KB] of incidence, mortality and survival by deprivation category

Non-melanoma skin cancer: ICD-10 C44

Incidence:	Annual incidence[289KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of incidence[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Mortality:	Annual mortality[301KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of mortality[49KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence:	Cancer prevalence[17KB]

Basal cell carcinoma: ICD-10 C44 M-809

Incidence:	Annual incidence[292KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of incidence[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence:	Cancer prevalence[17KB]

Squamous cell carcinoma: ICD-10 C44 M-807

Incidence:	Annual incidence[303KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of incidence[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence:	Cancer prevalence[17KB]

Summary statistics for malignant melanoma of the skin

Scotland	Males	Females
Rank	9	7
Percentage frequency of all cancers	3.1%	3.3%
Number of new cases diagnosed in 2005	393	454
Number of deaths recorded in 2006	90	68
Change in incidence from 1995 to 2005	+43.2%	+20.1%
Change in mortality from 1996 to 2006	+28.9%	+9.3%
1 year relative survival for patients diagnosed between 2000 and 2004	95.4%	98.4%
5 year relative survival for patients diagnosed between 2000 and 2004	86.5%	92.8%

Notes:
1. Non-melanoma skin cancer is often excluded from comparative analyses of cancer data, both because of concerns about the completeness of registration and a perception that cancers of this kind are rarely life threatening. Most non-melanoma skin cancers are detected early and can be treated on an outpatient basis (the lack of a discharge record for such patients is one of the reasons why registration of new cases is less complete than for other cancers, most of which involve hospitalisation).
2. Survival figures are not age standardised.
3. Change in incidence and mortality is estimated by Poisson regression.