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Table 6 Probability of dying of cancer within selected age intervals, by sex and selected sites, Germany.

From: German cancer statistics 2004

 

Age-conditional mortality risk

 

Site (ICD-10)

Birth to 49

50 to 69

70 and older

Lifetime mortality risk

 

Male

 

Colorectal (C18-C21)

0.1%

1.0%

3.1%

3.3%

Lung (C33, C34)

0.2%

2.5%

4.9%

6.2%

Prostate (C61)

0.0%

0.5%

3.8%

3.2%

All cancer sites

(C00-C97 except C44)

1.0%(1 in 103)

8.3%(1 in 12)

22.9% (1 in 4)

25.7%(1 in 4)

 

Female

 

Colorectal (C18-C21)

0.1%

0.5%

2.8%

3.0%

Lung (C33, C34)

0.1%

0.8%

1.4%

2.2%

Breast (C50)

0.3%

1.2%

2.4%

3.5%

All cancer sites

(C00-C97 except C44)

1.0%(1 in 97)

5.4%(1 in 18)

16.2% (1 in 6)

20.2%(1 in 5)