Mortality

This report describes trends in cancer mortality in Ireland from 1950-2020 with predictions to 2015. The age-standardised mortality rate for most cancers is predicted to fall between 1998-2002 and 2015. In absolute terms, the largest projected...Read more

This report describes incidence, mortality, treatment and survival for breast cancer in Ireland for the period 1994-2009, with international comparisons. It shows that:

This report shows that while both incidence and mortality rates from lung cancer are falling in men, the incidence rate in women is increasing by over 2% per year, with the largest increase (4% a year) in women under 55. Lung cancer has now...Read more

This annual statistical report for 2011 shows that the number of cancer cases diagnosed each year has risen by almost 50% since the mid 1990's and that over 90,000 people are now alive 15 years after their cancer diagnosis. The report estimates...Read more

According to this annual statistical report for 2009, in 2005-2007, the National Cancer Registry registered an annual average of 27,023 new cases. The commonest invasive cancers overall (apart from non-melanoma skin cancer, NMSC) were prostate (2...Read more

This is the third joint report between the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Registry and it reveals that each year over 21,000 people across Ireland were diagnosed...Read more

This annual statistical report shows that 26,776 new cancers were registered in 2005, 21% more than the 1994-2005 average. The commonest cancer overall (apart from non-melanoma skin cancer; 6,196 cases) was cancer of the prostate (2...Read more

This annual statistical report shows that, between 1994 and 2001, an average of 20,523 cancer cases was registered each year. The commonest cancer by far was non-melanoma skin cancer (29% of all malignant cancers). If non-melanoma skin cancer is...Read more