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UK Testicular Cancer mortality statistics
This page contains testicular cancer mortality statistics by age and trends.
Testicular cancer mortality by age
In 2006 there were 78 deaths from testicular cancer in the UK; 56 in England, 7 in Wales, 14 in Scotland, and 1 in Northern Ireland.(Table 2.1)1-3 The overall UK death rate age-standardised was 0.3 per 100,000.
Most of the deaths occurred between the ages of 25–49 years (Figure 2.1).1-3
Testicular cancer mortality trends
Reflecting incidence trends, mortality rates for testicular cancer increased from the beginning of the twentieth century until the 1970s. The rise was almost exclusively in young men aged 15–49 years, which produced the highly unusual age-distribution of this cancer (Figure 2.2).4-6
Figure 2.3 shows the testicular cancer mortality trends from 1971 to 2006.
The introduction of platinum-based chemotherapy in the 1970s resulted in a dramatic fall in the death rate in the UK and other westernised countries, as evidenced by the very low 2000–04 rates seen in Figure 2.2 above.
Such falls in mortality following the introduction of effective treatment are seen in most developed countries, but not all at the same time, due to the inequitable distribution of resources and expertise between countries.7
Mortality began to decline earlier in the USA than in the EU, and rates in Eastern Europe did not begin to decline until the late 1980s, resulting in the ‘avoidable’ deaths of several hundred young men each year.8 The Japanese incidence and mortality rates are relatively low compared with the USA and Europe9, but they also benefited from improved treatment: the mortality rate fell by 43% in Japanese testicular cancer patients aged 20–44 between 1975–79 and 1995–97.10
References
- Office for National Statistics Mortality Statistics: Cause. England and Wales 2006 London TSO 2008
- Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, 2008, Cancer Mortality in Northern Ireland, 2006
- ISD Online, 2008, Cancer Mortality in Scotland, 2006
- OPCS, Cancer Mortality England and Wales 1911-1970. SMPS No 29. 1975: HMSO.
- OPCS, Monitor DH1 80/3. 1980.
- Statistical Information Team. 2006, Cancer Research UK: London.
- Boyle, P., Testicular cancer: the challenge for cancer control. Lancet Oncol, 2004. 5(1): p. 56-61.
- Levi, F., et al., Testicular cancer mortality in Eastern Europe. Int J Cancer, 2003. 105(4): p. 574.
- Nakata, S., et al., Incidence of urogenital cancers in Gunma Prefecture, Japan: a 10-year summary. Int J Urol, 1998. 5(4): p. 364-9.
- Levi, F., et al., Western and eastern European trends in testicular cancer mortality. Lancet, 2001. 357(9271): p. 1853-4.
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