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Table 3 Annual percentage change of world age-standardized incidence rate by topographic groups, histologic types. FRANCIM network data 2000–2013 (11 registries)

From: Incidence and time trends of sarcoma (2000–2013): results from the French network of cancer registries (FRANCIM)

 

n

Joinpoint

APC

95% CI

Sarcomas by topographic groups

 Soft Tissue

3766

 

0.8

(−0.4; 2.0)

 Bone

1193

 

1.2

(−0.4; 2.9)

 Skin

1062

 

-2.0a

(−3.5; −0.4)

 Viscera tumors organs

  Gastro-intestinal organs

1053

 

1.5

(−0.3; 3.3)

  Female genital organs

297

2000–2005

4.2

(−4.2; 13.2)

376

2005–2013

−6.7a

(−10.4; −2.7)

  Other visceral organs

540

 

−1.7

(−5.1; 1.8)

  Other anatomic sites

171

 

1.0

(−3.4; 5.6)

Sarcomas by histologic groups

 Unclassified sarcoma

1513

 

−1.6

(−3.6; 0.3)

 Leiomyosarcoma

1281

 

−2.6a

(−4.6; −0.6)

 GIST

822

 

3.7a

(0.8; 6.8)

 Liposarcoma

713

 

1.3

(−1.1; 3.7)

 Dermatofibrosarcoma

496

 

0.6

(−1.4; 2.7)

 Chondrosarcoma

454

 

4.1a

(1.6; 6.6)

 Kaposi sarcoma

419

 

−4.1a

(−6.8; −1.4)

 Osteosarcoma

359

 

−0.6

(−3.7; 2.6)

 Angiosarcoma

335

 

2.2

(−1.2; 5.7)

 Ewing sarcoma

330

 

−0.2

(−4.1; 3.8)

 Rhabdomyosarcoma

286

 

−1.1

(−6.2; 4.4)

 Others (with fewer than 20 cases)

226

 

4.1

(−1.3; 9.8)

 Synovial sarcoma

219

 

1.2

(−4.2; 6.9)

 Nerve Sheath Tumors

191

 

−0.1

(−4.3; 4.4)

 Myxofibrosarcoma

183

 

8.2a

(0.4; 16.6)

 Endometrial stromal sarcoma

173

 

−3.7

(−7.4; 0.1)

 Fibrosarcoma

151

 

−9.2a

(−15.7; −2.3)

 Chordoma

126

 

0.8

(−4.8; 6.6)

 Solitary fibrous tumor. Malignant

102

 

12.2a

(6.2; 18.5)

 Epithelioid haemangioendothelioma

55

 

 Myoepithelial carcinoma

24

 

Total

3359

2000–2005

3.6a

(0.2; 7.1)

5099

2005–2013

−1.4

(−2.9; 0.1)

  1. Note. Joinpoint = years when statistically significant changes in incidence trend occurred
  2. APC Annual Percent Change, CI Confidence Interval
  3. aIndicates that the APC is significantly different from 0 at the alpha = 0.05 level