Cancer Mortality Rates
A cancer mortality rate is the number of
deaths, with cancer as the underlying cause of death, occurring
in a specified population during a year. Cancer mortality is usually expressed as the
number of deaths due to cancer per 100,000 population. That is,
Mortality Rate = (Cancer
Deaths / Population) × 100,000
The numerator of the mortality rate is the number
of deaths; the denominator is the size of
the population. The population used depends on the rate to be calculated.
For cancer sites that occur in only one sex, the sex-specific population
(e.g., females for cervical cancer) is used. The mortality rate
can be computed for a given cancer site or for all cancers combined.
Find published reports and research tools for calculating Mortality Statistics.
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