The Scottish Cancer Registration scheme has been managed by ISD since 1997 and has been collecting information on cancer since 1958. The data are used for a wide variety of purposes which include: public health surveillance; health needs assessment, planning and commissioning cancer services; evaluation of the impact of interventions on incidence and survival; clinical audit and health services research; epidemiological studies; and providing information to support genetic counselling and health promotion.

The cancer statistics pages provide a wide range of statistical analyses based on data from the Scottish Cancer Registry and the General Register Office for Scotland. In addition, published reports are produced periodically and are available at Cancer reports.

There are three cancer screening programmes in Scotland (bowel, breast and cervical) and analytical support for the evaluation and monitoring of these programmes is provided by ISD Scotland. ISD also provides a support service for Clinical trials for cancer and facilitates National Cancer Audits.

Recent publications

Cancer statistics

Below are the most recent data by cancer site.  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.

Metadata

Information about Cancer Incidence data available here [27KB].

Main contact: For queries or to give feedback: Cancer Stats

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