Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Preface
    • Contributors
    • Executive summary
  • Sections
    1. Introduction 
      • Content of this report
      • Measurement
        • Cancer incidence
        • Cancer Mortality
        • Survival
      • Previous studies
      • International Studies
    2. Method Overview
      • Relative survival analysis
      • Survival period
      • Interpretation of survival measures
    3. All cancers 
      • Introduction
      • Incidence and mortality
      • Survival by period of diagnosis
      • Survival by age at diagnosis
      • International comparisons
      • Survival by individual cancer site
      • Comparison of survival by period of diagnosis for individual cancer sites
    4. Cancer of the stomach 
    5. Cancer of the colon 
    6. Cancer of the rectum
    7. Cancer of the pancreas
    8. Cancer of the lung 
      • Small-cell carcinoma of the lung
      • Non-small-cell carcinoma of the lung
      • Adenocarcinoma of the lung
    9. Cancer of the skin - melanoma 
    10. Cancer of the breast (female) 
    11. Cancer of the uterus 
    12. Cancer of the cervix 
      • Squamous cell carcinoma
      • Adenocarcinoma
    13. Cancer of the ovary 
    14. Cancer of the prostate 
    15. Cancer of the testis 
    16. Cancer of the bladder
    17. Cancer of the kidney 
      • Transitional cell carcinoma of the kidney
      • Renal cell carcinoma of the kidney
    18. Cancer of the brain
    19. Cancer of the thyroid 
    20. Cancer of unknown primary site 
      • Adenocarcinoma of unknown primary site
    21. Hodgkin's disease 
    22. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 
    23. Leukaemia 
      • Acute lymphatic leukaemia
      • Acute myeloid leukaemia
      • Chronic lymphatic leukaemia
      • Chronic myeloid leukaemia
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Methods
        • Objective
        • Relative survival analysis
        • Confidentiality
        • Data sources
          • National Cancer Statistics Clearing House (NCSCH)
          • National death Index (NDI)
          • Life tables
        • Confidence intervals
        • Data processes
          • NCSCH and NDI matching
          • Cancer registries' practices in resolving matches between the NCSCH and the NDI
          • NCSCH internal matching
          • Final analysis data set
      2. Topography codes
    • References