Tables by histological type

This option presents the age-standardized incidence rates (ASR(W)) of microscopically verified (MV) cases by histological type and by sex, for selected cancers. The Histological Groups used in this volume are based on the ICD-O-3 morphology codes and have been fully described in Chapter 4.

  • Digestive organs
    • Oesophagus (C15)
  • Others
  • Female genital organs
    • Cervix uteri (C53)
    • Corpus uteri (C54)
  • Male genital organs
  • Urinary organs
  • Eye, brain, central nervous system and thyroid
    • Brain, central nervous system (C71–72)
  • Lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue
    • Hodgkin lymphoma (C81)
Key to conventions and symbols used in the tables:
  • - (dash) = no cases registered.
  • 0.0 = the rate is greater than 0 but less than 0.05.
* refers to notes concerning the data quality, which are available on the population page of the registry summary tables.