Oral cancer - UK mortality statistics
Oral cancer mortality statistics can be found here, including by age and sex and trends over time up to 2008. Top line mortality statistics for 2009 can be found on the Data table:Cancer cases and deaths in the UK
Oral cancer mortality
The overall age standardised mortality rate has remained fairly stable between 1971 and 2008 at around 3.3 and 1.4 per 100,000 for males and females respectively ( Figure 2.2). 1-3

As with the incidence trends, the all-ages oral cancer mortality figure masks the variation in age-specific trends seen in Figure 2.3. Mortality rates among men aged 85+ have fallen by more than 60%, while rates in those aged 75-84 have also fallen by 64% since 1971. On the contrary, for men aged 45-64 there has been an increase of 69%. For younger men the rate has remained stable.


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References for oral cancer mortality
- Office for National Statistics, 2010 Mortality Statistics: Cause, 2008
- ISD Online, 2010 Cancer Incidence and Mortality data, 2008
- Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency 2010 Northern Ireland Mortality data, 2008.






