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Table 2: Incidence rates( 1) of all cancers( 2) per 100,000 population, by Government Office Region and sex: England, 2004
	Male	Female
England	401	342
North East	428	370
North West	449	365
Yorkshire and the Humber	416	356
East Midlands	402	365
West Midlands	402	342
East	359	309
London	373	306
South East	379	332
South West	418	362
(1) Directly age standardised to the European Standard Population. (2) All cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer is defined as codes C00-C97 excluding C44 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) Source: Office for National Statistics

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