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Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: Socio-economic Information
2007
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Chart 6
Cancer incidence1,2
1.
Cancer incidence rates are age-standardized
using the direct method and the 1991 Canadian Census population
structure. The use of a standard population results in more meaningful incidence
rate comparisons, because it adjusts for variations in population age distributions
over time and across geographic areas.
2.
The Canada, provincial and territorial totals
for all cancers diagnosed between 1976 and 1991 exclude
approximately 197,500 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer (International
Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9 173)).
Source(s): CANSIM table 103-0204.
