Indices of data quality

1. Tables showing the percentage of cases microscopically verified (MV%), and the percentage of cases registered from a death certificate only (DCO%), by sex, for the following cancer sites or groups:

All sites except non–melanoma skin cancer (C00–96/C44)
- Lip, oral cavity and pharynx (C00–14)
Digestive organs
- Oesophagus (C15)
- Stomach (C16)
- Large bowel (C18–21)
- Liver (C22)
- Pancreas (C25)
Respiratory and other intrathoracic organs
- Larynx (C32)
- Trachea, bronchus and lung (C33–34)
Melanoma of skin (C43)
Breast (C50)
Female genital organs
- Cervix uteri (C53)
- Corpus uteri (C54)
- Ovary (C56)
Male genital organs
- Prostate (C61)
- Testis (C62)
Urinary organs
- Kidney and renal pelvis (C64–65)
- Bladder (C67)
Brain, central nervous system, and thyroid
- Brain, central nervous system (C70–72)
- Thyroid (C73)
Lymphoid, haematopoietic and related tissue
- Lymphoma (C81–90,C96)
- Leukaemia (C91–95)

Key to conventions and symbols used in the tables:

- (dash) = DCO not submitted
0 = cases registered but not microscopically verified/reported on the basis of a death certificate only

* refers to notes concerning the data quality, which are available on the population page of the registry summary tables.

2. Table of the percentage of other and unspecified site (O&U) and unknown age (Unk), for both sexes combined.

All sites (C00-96)

Key to conventions and symbols used in the tables:

- (dash) = no cases of unknown age registered.
0.0 = the percentage is greater than 0 but less than 0.05.