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Table 2 Incidence of and mortality from 10 most common cancers in Asia: women

From: Managing the changing burden of cancer in Asia

Cancer type

 

2008

  

2030

 

Cases, N

ASR (W) per 100,000

Deaths, N

ASR (W) per 100,000

Cases, N

Deaths, N

Breast

528,927

26

193,497

9.5

818,220

321,106

Cervix uteri

312,990

15.3

159,894

7.9

473,001

267,180

Lung

268,434

13.1

229,778

11

512,745

446,879

Stomach

243,154

11.7

188,427

8.9

458,509

364,559

Colorectum

225,688

11

122,034

5.8

421,906

235,470

Liver

167,851

8.2

157,719

7.6

312,801

298,119

Corpus uteri

131,178

6.6

35,044

1.7

214,877

63,526

Oesophagus

124,507

6.1

103,313

5.0

237,659

201,705

Ovary

102,408

5.1

60,142

3.0

162,018

102,920

Leukaemia

76,111

3.8

60,298

3.0

108,189

87,708

All: Asia

2,851,110

139.6

1,718,721

83.2

4,854,983

3,127,901

All: World

6,044,710

164.4

3,345,176

87.2

9,790,012

5,661,912

  1. Source: adapted from Ferlay et al. [3].
  2. ASR (W), age-standardised rate (standardised to world standard population).