Vaginal cancer - mortality statistics

Vaginal cancer mortality statistics are presented here by age and trends over time.

The latest cancer incidence statistics available for the UK are for 2009, and for mortality the latest statistics are for 2010. We are currently working to update all the incidence and mortality pages on this site. Find out why more up to date statistics are not yet available.

In the UK
By age

Trends over time

Each year in the UK, there are around 93 deaths from vaginal cancer ( Table 2.1). 1-,3 The European age-standardised death rate for vaginal cancer is 0.2 per 100,000 female population. 1-,3

Numbers and rates of deaths, cancer of the vagina, UK by country, five-year average

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The mortality rate for vaginal cancer is less than 0.0 per 100,000 females up to the age of 44, 0.3 per 100,000 women aged 45-64, 1.2 per 100,000 women aged 65 and over, reaching around 2 per 100,000 women aged over 80 ( Figure 2.1). 1-,3

Numbers of deaths and age-specific mortality rates, cancer of the vagina, UK, five-year average

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The age-standardised mortality rate has remained stable since 2001at 0.2 per 100,000 females and was slightly lower in 2008 at 0.1 per 100,000 ( Figure 2.2). 1-3 In the early 1970s, the rate was 0.4 per 100,000.

Age-standardised (European) mortality rates for cancer of the vagina, UK

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The vaginal cancer mortality rate in the UK for women in their seventies fell from 2.4 per 100,000 women in 1971 to 0.7 per 100,000 in 2008. The rate for women over 80 also fell over the same period, from 3.5 per 100,000 to 1.9 per 100,000. 1-3