Liver cancer

UK Liver Cancer mortality statistics

This page contains liver cancer mortality statistics including by age and sex and trends over time.

Liver cancer mortality rates by age and sex

Liver cancer causes more than 3,000 deaths every year in the UK. The annual number of deaths in the UK and its constituent countries together with the rates for the year 2006 are shown in Table 2.1.

Table 2.1: Number of deaths and mortality rates of liver cancer, UK

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The distribution of deaths by age for males and females separately are shown in Figure 2.1.

Figure 2.1: Number of deaths and age-specific mortality rates, liver cancer, by sex, UK

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Liver cancer mortality trends

The age-standardised mortality rates between 1971 and 2006 for the UK are shown in Figure 2.2.

Figure 2.2: Age-standardised (European) mortality, liver cancer, by sex, UK

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References for liver cancer mortality

  1. Office for National Statistics, 2008 Mortality Statistics: Cause, 2006
  2. ISD Online, 2008 Cancer Incidence and Mortality data, 2006
  3. Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency 2008 Northern Ireland Mortality data, 2006.

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