Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada (Jul 2022)

Update on cancer incidence trends in Canada, 1984 to 2017

  • Alain A. Demers,
  • Nathalie Saint-Jacques,
  • Larry Ellison,
  • Darren Brenner,
  • Natalie Fitzgerald,
  • Samina Aziz,
  • Donna Turner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.42.7.04
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 42, no. 7
pp. 301 – 305

Abstract

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This paper highlights findings on cancer trends from the Canadian Cancer Statistics 2021 report. Trends were measured using annual percent change (APC) of age-standardized incidence rates. Overall, cancer incidence rates are declining (−1.1%) but the findings are specific to the type of cancer and patient sex. For example, in males, the largest decreases per year were for prostate (−4.4%), colorectal (−4.3%), lung (−3.8%), leukemia (−2.6%) and thyroid (−2.4%) cancers. In females, the largest decreases were for thyroid (−5.4%), colorectal (−3.4%) and ovarian (−3.1%) cancers.