Table 1 Comparison of overall and sex-specific age-standardised incidence, mortality and MIR of all cancers across six continents
From: Relationships between cancer pattern, country income and geographical region in Asia
All cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer | Age-standardized rate (per 100,000 person-years) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Overall | Male | Female | |||||||
Continent | Inc | Mor | MIR | Inc | Mor | MIR | Inc | Mor | MIR |
Northern America | 315.6 | 105.5 | 0.33 | 344.2 | 123.2 | 0.36 | 295.4 | 91.7 | 0.31 |
Oceania | 298.4 | 102.5 | 0.34 | 338.5 | 117.8 | 0.35 | 264.8 | 90.0 | 0.34 |
Europe | 255.4 | 113.1 | 0.44 | 298.9 | 147.5 | 0.49 | 226.7 | 87.6 | 0.39 |
Latin America and Caribbean | 177.0 | 94.9 | 0.54 | 187.6 | 108.4 | 0.58 | 170.7 | 84.7 | 0.50 |
Asia | 152.2 | 100.1 | 0.66 | 174.1 | 126.3 | 0.73 | 134.3 | 77.0 | 0.57 |
Africa | 123.4 | 89.9 | 0.73 | 115.6 | 92.9 | 0.80 | 132.4 | 88.7 | 0.67 |
World | 182.3 | 102.4 | 0.56 | 205.4 | 126.3 | 0.61 | 165.3 | 82.9 | 0.50 |