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Data that informs the data visualisations can be found in the Data section of Cancer data in Australia (CdiA). The following table outlines the range of data provided within CdiA and can be used to assist in navigating through the various Excel workbooks of this report.

The table contains links to the various data and the respective visualisations the data informs. The Excel workbooks provide data for the many different cancers presented within each visualisation. Please note that estimates based on projections were made for the following: incidence data from 2019 to 2022, National Mortality Database mortality data from 2021 to 2022 and Australian Cancer Database mortality data from 2018 to 2022.

Book no. Broad category (and period) Contents Relevant visualistions
1a Cancer incidence
1982 to 2022		 Cancer incidence age-standardised rates  (ASR)
Crude cancer incidence rates
Segi and WHO cancer incidence ASR
Age specific cancer incidence rates by 5-year age groups
Cases diagnosed by 5-year age groups		 Summary
Incidence by age
1b Cancer incidence
1982 to 2022		 Age-specific cancer incidence rates and counts of cancers diagnosed by 10-year age groups Incidence by age
1c Cancer incidence
1982 to 2022		 Age-specific cancer incidence rates and counts of cancers diagnosed by 15-, 20-, 25- and 30-year age groups Incidence by age
1d Cancer incidence
1982 to 2022		 Age-specific cancer incidence rates and counts of cancers diagnosed by 35-, 40-, 45- and 50-year age groups Incidence by age
2a Cancer mortality
1971 to 2022

Cancer mortality data based on the National Mortality Database:

Cancer mortality ASR
Crude cancer mortality rates
Segi and WHO cancer mortality ASR
Age-specific cancer mortality rates by 5-year age groups.
Deaths from cancer by 5-year age groups		 Mortality by age
2b Cancer mortality
1971 to 2022

Cancer mortality data based on the National Mortality Database:

Age-specific cancer mortality rates and deaths from cancer (by 10-year age groups)		 Mortality by age
2c Cancer mortality
1971 to 2022

Cancer mortality data based on the National Mortality Database:

Age-specific cancer mortality rates and deaths from cancer (by 15, 20, 25 and 30-year age groups)		 Mortality by age
2d Cancer mortality
1971 to 2022

Cancer mortality data based on the National Mortality Database:

Age-specific cancer mortality rates and deaths from cancer by 35, 40, 45 and 50-year age groups		 Mortality by age
2e Cancer mortality
2007 to 2022

Cancer mortality data based on the Australian Cancer Database:

Cancer mortality ASR
Crude cancer mortality rates
Age-specific cancer mortality rates and deaths by 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50-year age groups.		 Mortality by age
3a Cancer survival
1989–1993 to 2014–2018 periods		 Cancer survival rates
Cancer survival rates by 5-year age groups (2014–2018 only)
Conditional cancer survival rates		 Summary
Survival
3b Cancer survival
1989–1993 to 2014–2018 periods		 Cancer survival rates
Cancer survival rates by 20-year age groups
Age-adjusted cancer survival rates		 Survival by age
4a Cancer risk
Incidence: 1982 to 2022
Mortality: 1971 for 2022

Cancer risk adjusted for competing mortality, including:
Risk of death from cancer by age
Risk of cancer diagnosis by age

Note: estimates for risk of death in this book are based on cancer deaths from the National Mortality Database.		 Risk
4b Cancer risk
Incidence: 1982 to 2022
Mortality: 1971 for 2022

Cancer risk unadjusted for competing mortality, including:
Risk of death from cancer by age
Risk of cancer diagnosis by age

Note: estimates for risk of death in this book are based on cancer deaths from the National Mortality Database.		 Risk
4c Cancer risk
Mortality: 2007 to 2022

Cancer risk adjusted and unadjusted for competing mortality, including:
Risk of death from cancer by age

Note: estimates for risk of death in this book are based on cancer deaths from the Australian Cancer Database.

 Risk
5 Age at diagnosis/death
Incidence: 1982 to 2018
Mortality: 1971 to 2020

Median and mean age at cancer diagnosis
Median and mean age at death from cancer

Note: estimates for risk of death in this book are based on cancer deaths from the National Mortality Database.

Incidence by age

Mortality by age
6 Cancer prevalence
as at 31 December 2017		 Number of people alive and diagnosed with cancer:
within the last year
within the last 5 years
within the last 36 years		 Summary
7 State and territory incidence data
1982 to 2018		 State and territory cancer incidence ASR
State and territory number of cancer cases diagnosed		 State and territory
8 Cancer incidence and survival by stage
2011		 Proportion of cases diagnosed by stage at diagnosis
Cancer survival by stage at diagnosis

Stage data is only available for melanoma of the skin, breast cancer in females, lung cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer.		 Stage
Pivot Cancer incidence by 3 character ICD-10 code
(1982 to 2018)		 Counts of cases diagnosed
Age-specific and crude incidence rates		 n.a.
ACIM Australian cancer incidence and
mortality		 The Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM) workbooks are no longer provided. n.a.