Cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2016

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Background: National Cancer Center (NCC) of China annually reports the nationwide statistics for cancer incidence and mortality using population-based cancer registry data from all available cancer registries in China. Conclusions: Cancer remains a major public health problem in China, which demands long-term collaborative efforts of a broad community.

🔑 Key Findings

• Methods: There were a total of 487 registries which reported high quality data of cancer incidence and mortality across China in 2016.
• The nationwide numbers of new cancer cases and deaths were estimated using the pooled cancer registry data, which were stratified by area (urban/rural), sex, age group (0, 1-4, 5-9, 10-14…85+) and cancer site for incidence and mortality, and then multiplied by corresponding national population.
• The world Segi's population was applied for the calculation of age-standardized rates.

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