Lifetime risk of being diagnosed with, or dying from, prostate cancer by major ethnic group in England 2008–2010

Table 3 Prostate cancer incident cases/deaths and all-cause deaths by major ethnic group and methodology, England 2008–2010

	Major ethnic group	Data source	Raw data	Method for assigning ethnicity to unknown cases
	Major ethnic group	Data source	Raw data	All White	Proportionate	Increased minority
Number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer, n	White	NCDR	71,620	97,974	96,489	95,746
	Asian	NCDR	1,097	1,097	1,478	1,668
	Black	NCDR	2,402	2,402	3,236	3,653
	Unknown	NCDR	26,354
	Overall	NCDR	102,252
	Overall	ONS	100,378
Number of men who died from prostate cancer, n	White	PHE	22,238	23,354	23,306	23,281
	White	PHE/ONS ^a		25,512	25,370	25,299
	Asian	PHE	227	227	238	243
	Asian	PHE/ONS ^a			259	275
	Black	PHE	584	584	612	626
	Black	PHE/ONS ^a			666	707
	Unknown	PHE	1,116
	Unknown	PHE/ONS ^a	3,274
	Overall	PHE	24,363
	Overall	ONS	26,521
Number of men who died from any cause, n	White	PHE	498,471	533,310	531,613	530,765
	White	PHE/ONS ^a		646,044	638,856	635,262
	Asian	PHE	11,935	11,935	12,729	13,125
	Asian	PHE/ONS ^a			15,296	16,977
	Black	PHE	7,202	7,202	7,681	7,920
	Black	PHE/ONS ^a			9,230	10,244
	Unknown	PHE	34,839
	Unknown	PHE/ONS ^a	147,573
	Overall	PHE	558,833
	Overall	ONS	671,567

NCDR, National Cancer Data Repository; ONS, Office for National Statistics; PHE, Public Health England
^a PHE data with additional ONS mortality counts
Numbers used for ‘best estimate’ lifetime risk are highlighted in bold
Note: numbers do not add up as major ethnic groups Mixed and Other are not included
Table produced with data from [39–43]

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