http://www.isdscotland.org/ Cancer Health statistics Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:00:00 GMT Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:00:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/rss ISD Scotland NSS.isdexternalwebsite@nhs.net (ISD Web Team) NSS.isdexternalwebsite@nhs.net (ISD Web Team) http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#974 Looking at three year performance standard attendance figures, uptake remains similar to last year, at approximately 75%.All NHS Boards continued to exceed the minimum performance attendance standard of >70% of women invited during the previous three years.In 2010-11, all NHS Breast Screening Programme Minimum Performance Standards and all but 2 of the targets were met. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#974 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#839 In recent years, the overall age-standardised incidence rates have fallen for males and increased for females.Incidence rates show considerable variation between cancers, with, for example, substantial increases in melanoma of the skin and kidney cancers (both sexes), and decreases in ovarian (females) and lung cancers (males only). Actual numbers of cases of cancer have risen over the last decade, largely due to an ageing population. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#839 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#630 In recent years, the overall age-standardised cancer mortality rates have fallen for both males and females.There is considerable variation in trends for different types of cancer. For example, the rate of female deaths due to colorectal cancer has decreased 12% over the last 10 years, while female death rates due to lung cancer have increased almost 11% over the same time period.Although the age-standardised rate of death due to cancer has decreased, the actual number of deaths due to cancer has increased: this largely reflects an increase in older age groups within the population, and the fact that cancer is a relatively common disease among the elderly.Significant patterns exist when examining incidence and mortality rates by deprivation in Scotland.The most deprived areas have higher incidence and mortality rates for all cancers combined (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers). However, there are variations in this pattern when looking at specific types of cancer, for example malignant melanoma of skin. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#630 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#605 In recent years, the overall age-standardised incidence rates have fallen slightly for males and increased significantly for females.Incidence rates show considerable variation between cancers, with substantial increases in melanoma of the skin and kidney cancers (both sexes), and decreases in stomach (both sexes) and lung cancers (males only).Actual numbers of cases of cancer have risen over the last decade, likely to be largely due to an ageing population.Based on current trends, more than one in three people in Scotland will develop cancer in their lifetime.As at 31 December 2009, there were approximately 153,000 people in Scotland who were living with a cancer that had been diagnosed within the previous 20 years.Details of these statistics can be found by cancer site on the Cancer website and summarised in the Cancer in Scotland Summary report. Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#605 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#597 Overall in Scotland uptake was 53.7%, a rise of 0.7% compared with the two year period November 2007 to October 2009. The NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (now known as Healthcare Improvement Scotland) standard for Bowel Screening uptake is 60%. Uptake for females in Scotland was 57.2% and uptake for males was 50.0%.Uptake was lower in areas of higher deprivation. Uptake for females in the two least deprived quintiles exceeded the standard at 66.6% and 62.8% respectively. Only 38.7% of males living in the most deprived quintile take up the offer of screening.8.0% of men and 6.4% of women who had a positive screening test result (and who went on for further investigations) had either polyp cancer or invasive colorectal cancer. Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#597 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#596 Of all eligible women, approximately 74% have taken up the invitation to screening within the last 3.5 years.Just over 390,000 cervical screening tests were processed within the programme which is an increase of approximately 4% in the last 3 years since 2007-08.Of all tests processed, just over 97% were of satisfactory quality. Of satisfactory results, 90.8% had a negative result, 7.9% had a low grade cell change and the remaining 1.3% had high grade cell changes. Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#596 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#589 Annual update of breast screening statistics to 31st March 2010, including uptake, cancer detection rates, biopsy results and other outcomes.NHSBSP Performance Standards, at 31st March 2010:Looking at three year performance standard attendance figures, uptake remains similar to last year, at approximately 75%.All NHS Boards continued to exceed the minimum performance attendance standard of >70% of women invited during the previous three years.In 2009-10, all NHS Breast Screening Programme Minimum Performance Standards were met. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#589 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#817 In the 30 year period 1979-2008 there were 5,267 cancers diagnosed in persons aged between 15 and 24 years, an average of 176 per year and representing less than 1% of malignant neoplasms diagnosed in a given year. Incidence has risen over that period, but has been largely stable over the last two 5 year periods with the exception of some specific types of cancer. The observed survival rate has increased over the same time period: for all cancers combined, survival at one year after diagnosis has increased by 11 percentage points, to approximately 94% of diagnoses, while five year survival has increased by 16 percentage points to 83%. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#817 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#816 In the period 1983-2007, there were 3,235 children under the age of 15 diagnosed with some form of cancer, representing an average of 130 cases per year and less than 1% of all cancers diagnosed in Scotland each year, with a general increase over time.In the same period, 815 children died of cancer, with a general (but not statistically significant) decrease in mortality from childhood cancer over the time period. Survival from childhood cancers has generally increased over the 25 year period in all follow-up intervals analysed (1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 years after diagnosis). Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#816 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#550 In recent years, the overall age-standardised cancer mortality rates have fallen for both males and females. However, there is considerable variation in trends for different types of cancer. For example, the rate of female deaths due to colorectal cancer has decreased 14% over the last 10 years, while female death rates due to lung cancer have increased almost 12% over the same time period.Although the age-standardised rate of death due to cancer has decreased, the actual number of deaths due to cancer has increased: this largely reflects an increase in older age groups within the population, and the fact that cancer is a relatively common disease among the elderly. Significant patterns exist when examining incidence and mortality rates by deprivation in Scotland. The most deprived areas have higher incidence and mortality rates for all cancers combined. However, there are variations in this pattern when looking at specific types of cancer, for example malignant melanoma. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#550 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#546 In recent years, the overall age-standardised incidence rates have fallen slightly for males and increased slightly for females.However, the rates do show considerable variation between cancers, with substantial increases in melanoma of the skin and kidney cancers (both sexes), and decreases in stomach (both sexes) and lung cancers (males only).Actual numbers of cases of cancer have risen over the last decade, largely due to an ageing population. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#546 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-TopicsCancer/Publications/index.asp#826 Survival from cancer has, in general, increased between the periods of 1983-1987 and 2003-2007Taking all cancers combined, five year relative survival in the period 2003-2007 is estimated as 46% for males and 54% for females.This represents an increase of 18 percentage points in males and almost 15 percentage points in females when looking at all cancers combined over the study period.The largest absolute increases in survival are found in breast, prostate and colorectal Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-TopicsCancer/Publications/index.asp#826 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#824 At 31st March 2010:Of eligible women, 73.7% had been screened in the previous 3.5 years, a rise of approximately 0.3% compared to 31st March 2009.In contrast to 31st March 2009, uptake rates for those women invited to attend cervical screening in the previous 3.5 years have increased in 9 out of 15 NHS Boards, including former Argyll & Clyde.Of those eligible women with a record of a previous cervical screening test taken within the last 3.5 years, uptake rates have improved across most five year age bands within the target age range.In 2009 -10:Approximately 415,500 cervical screening tests were processed within the programme. This resulted in a decrease of almost 8% compared to 2008-09, which reported the largest number of cervical screening tests processed in any one year since 2001-02, with over 450,500 screening tests processed.Of all the tests processed, 97% were satisfactory. Approximately 91% of satisfactory tests had a negative result and 3.4% had some degree of pre-cancerous change. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#824 http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#787 In 2008-09, approximately 1,500 cases of screen detected breast cancer were diagnosed in women of all agesLooking at three year performance standard attendance figures, uptake remains similar to last year, at approximately 75%.All NHS Boards continued to exceed the minimum performance attendance standard of >70% of women invited during the previous three years. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:30:00 GMT http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Cancer/Publications/index.asp#787