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Skin Cancers

Data analyses and reports

Malignant melanoma of the skin: ICD-10 C43

Incidence:  Annual incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[309KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Mortality: Annual mortalitylink to a microsoft excel file[300KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of mortalitylink to a microsoft excel file[49KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Survival: Survivallink to a microsoft excel file[33KB] (by age and sex) at 1, 3, 5 & 10 years after diagnosis (1980 onwards)
Survival summarylink to an adobe pdf file [450KB] and interpretation at 1 & 5 years after diagnosis (1980 onwards)
Prevalence: Cancer prevalencelink to a microsoft excel file[17KB]
Lifetime risk: Lifetime risklink to a microsoft excel file[16KB] of cancer by age and sex
Deprivation: Chart link to a microsoft excel file[17KB] of incidence, mortality and survival by deprivation category

Non-melanoma skin cancer: ICD-10 C44

Incidence:  Annual incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[289KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Mortality: Annual mortalitylink to a microsoft excel file[301KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of mortalitylink to a microsoft excel file[49KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence: Cancer prevalencelink to a microsoft excel file[17KB]

Basal cell carcinoma: ICD-10 C44 M-809

Incidence: Annual incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[292KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence: Cancer prevalencelink to a microsoft excel file[17KB]

Squamous cell carcinoma: ICD-10 C44 M-807

Incidence: Annual incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[303KB] (1980 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
Five year summary of incidencelink to a microsoft excel file[48KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence: Cancer prevalencelink to a microsoft excel file[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.


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