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Rate per 100,000 population
Sex	Site	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Male	All cancers	264	260	254	246	246	238	232	228	227	222	221	213
	Lung	74	71	68	65	64	61	59	57	56	54	52	51
	Colorectal	28	28	27	27	26	25	25	24	24	23	23	21
	Stomach	16	15	15	14	13	13	12	11	11	10	9	9
	Prostate	31	31	30	29	29	28	27	27	27	27	26	26
	Bladder	11	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	8
	Pancreas	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
	Leukaemia	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
	Oesophagus	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
	Brain	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
	Lip, mouth and pharynx	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4
	Kidney	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
	Non Hodgkin's lymphoma	7	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	8	7	7	7
	Larynx	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Myeloma	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
	Hogkin's disease	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
	Testis	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Melanoma	2	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Female	All cancers	178	176	173	170	168	165	163	160	159	156	157	153
	Breast	38	37	35	34	34	33	32	31	30	29	28	28
	Colorectal	19	18	18	17	17	16	15	15	15	14	14	13
	Lung	30	29	29	28	29	29	28	28	28	29	28	29
	Stomach	7	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
	Ovary	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	10	10
	Cervix	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2
	Pancreas	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8
	Uterus	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
	Leukaemia	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
	Oesophagus	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
	Bladder	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Brain	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
	Non Hodgkin's lymphoma	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4
	Myeloma	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2
	Kidney	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
	Lip, mouth and pharynx	2	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	2	1
	Melanoma	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Hogkin's disease	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Larynx	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
(1) Cause of death for cancers was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) for 1971 to 1978, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for 1979 to 2000 and Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001 to 2005. See the box below for specific codes.

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