Pancreatic cancer rates were highest in the Czech Republic for both men and women, and lowest in Sweden for men and in Portugal for women (Figure 14.2). Male rates of pancreatic cancer in both RoI and NI were close to the median of the countries shown; for women, they were below the median in NI and above the median in RoI.
Figure 14.2 Estimated incidence rate per 100,000 in 2008 for selected developed countries compared to 2005-2007 incidence rate for RoI and NI: pancreatic cancer |
females | males |
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Source: GLOBOCAN 2008 (Ferlay et al., 2008) (excluding RoI and NI data, which is derived from Cancer Registry data for 2005-2007) |