Incidence - A to Z
This page contains links to content about cancer incidence.
Incidence refers to the number of people newly diagnosed with cancer and is usually expressed as the number of new cases which have been registered in a year.
- Read an explanation of' 'cancer incidence' on CancerHelp UK, our patient information website
- Read about UK cancer incidence statistics
Or find out more using the links below.
Browse content about Incidence
- Bladder cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Bowel (colorectal) cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Breast cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Cancer incidence by age - UK statistics
- Cervical cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Childhood cancer statistics - long-term follow-up
- Hodgkin lymphoma - UK incidence statistics
- Kidney cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Leukaemia - UK incidence statistics
- Liver cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Lung cancer - incidence projections to 2024
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma - UK incidence statistics
- Oral cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Ovarian cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Prevalence (numbers of cancer survivors) - UK
- Prostate cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Statistics on the risk of developing cancer
- Stomach cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Thyroid cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Vaginal cancer - incidence statistics
- Worldwide cancer statistics
- Bone and connective tissue cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Brain and other CNS tumours - UK incidence statistics
- Cancer incidence - UK statistics
- Cancer incidence for common cancers - UK statistics
- Childhood cancer statistics - incidence
- Colorectal cancer
- Incidence projections for selected cancers
- Laryngeal (larynx) cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Liver cancer
- Lung cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Multiple myeloma - UK incidence statistics
- Oesophageal cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Other cancers
- Pancreatic cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Prostate cancer
- Skin cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Stomach cancer
- Testicular cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Uterine (womb) cancer - UK incidence statistics
- Vulval cancer - UK incidence statistics
Latest Incidence news from Cancer Research UK
- Press Release: NHS faces huge cancer challenge as cases set to jump by 45 per cent
28 October 2011 - News story: Report reveals global breast and cervical cancer trends
15 September 2011 - Press Release: Two young adults diagnosed with skin cancer every day
6 April 2011 - Press Release: Lung cancer rates double in women over 60
7 March 2011 - Press Release: Oesophageal cancer rates in men up 50 per cent in a generation
28 August 2010 - Press Release: British Indians have fewer cancers than white British population
16 June 2010 - Press Release: Stomach cancer cases almost halve over the last 30 years
6 August 2009 - News story: Global bowel cancer rates on the rise
15 June 2009 - News story: Figures published on cancer rates in Scotland
29 April 2009 - News story: Aspirin may protect against breast cancer and assist treatment
7 March 2008
- News story: Study suggests oesophageal cancer 'less common than previously thought' in people with Barrett's oesophagus
13 October 2011 - Press Release: Cancer rates rise in middle-aged
18 July 2011 - Press Release: Over 12 per cent more bowel cancer cases found in over 60s because of screening
23 March 2011 - Press Release: One woman in eight will get breast cancer
4 February 2011 - News story: UK breast cancer rates 'four times higher than in eastern Africa'
10 August 2010 - Press Release: Alarming rise in oral cancer rates among forty-somethings
11 August 2009 - Press Release: First report on ethnicity and cancer published
25 June 2009 - Press Release: Deadly skin cancer cases hit record high
25 May 2009 - Press Release: Lung cancer rates 50 per cent higher in the west of Scotland
7 October 2008 - News story: HPV infection blamed for rise in mouth and throat cancers in US
29 August 2007
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- Graph showing trends in incidence of malignant brain and other cns tumours, Great Britain, 1975-2007 (45K)
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