Cancer risk data visualisation

For many different cancers, this data visualisation provides cancer incidence and mortality risk data by age. Help with terms, and information about the data, is available by placing the mouse pointer over the icons found near the top of the page. Additional guidance about the risk adjusted for competing mortality and risk unadjusted for competing mortality is located in cancer data commentary number 1 and the methods section.

For this year and as part of the cancer mortality data investigations, two sources of mortality data are used for cancer mortality reporting (the sources are the National Mortality Database (NMD) and the Australian Cancer Database (ACD)). Please read cancer data commentary number 8 for more information about cancer mortality data investigations. General assistance of how to choose which source to use for reporting on selected cancers is found within the data visualisation. Recommendations of which data source to use are also available within the data visualisation, and Cancer data commentary 8b provides information about how these recommendations were made and associated complexities of mortality reporting with two data sources available.

Advice about using the mortality data is also available by hovering the cursor above the “please read here for more information about using mortality data” box.

This cancer risk visualisation contains two figures. The visualisation presents statistics for the selected cancer and provides statistics by sex.

Figure 1 is a line graph that contains information on the risk of cancer diagnosis (adjusted or unadjusted for competing mortality) for the selected cancer and age range from 1982 to the most recent year available for reporting at the time of release. Please read cancer data commentary C1 for more information about cancer risk and the adjusted and unadjusted for competing mortality concepts.

Figure 2 is a line graph that contains information on the risk of death from cancer (adjusted or unadjusted for competing mortality) for the selected cancer and age range historically up to the most recent year available for reporting at the time of release. Two series are presented in the graph: a line graph for each of risk estimates using NMD-based and ACD-based cancer death counts.

The visualisation includes information about many different cancers and the statistics within this visualisation are available in Excel format within the Data section of this report.

Cancer risk data are available as supplementary tables.