Liver Cancer

Data analyses and reports

Detailed incidence and mortality data, and prevalence statistics:

Cancer of the liver and intrahepatic bile ducts
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].
Comparative data on cancer incidence and mortality is provided in Cancer Atlas of the UK and Ireland 1991-2000.
Cancer Research UK factsheets provide detailed analyses and interpretation of cancer data.

Cancer of the liver and intrahepatic bile ducts: ICD-10 C22

Incidence:	Annual incidence[716KB] (1985 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of incidence[171KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Mortality:	Annual mortality[849KB] (1985 onwards) by age, sex, network and health board
	Five year summary of mortality[183KB] by age, sex, network and health board
Prevalence:	Cancer prevalence[47KB]
Lifetime risk:	Lifetime risk[45KB]
Deprivation:	Incidence and mortality by deprivation category[35KB]

Summary statistics for liver cancer

Scotland	Males	Females
Rank - incidence	13	19
Rank - mortality	10	13
Percentage frequency of all cancers	1.9%	0.8%
Number of new cases diagnosed in 2007	253	110
Number of deaths recorded in 2008	213	130
Change in incidence from 1997 to 2007	+47.9%	+17.3%
Change in mortality from 1998 to 2008	+57.9%	+18.0%

Notes:
1. Change in incidence and mortality is estimated by Poisson regression.

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