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Table 3
Age-specific, five-year prevalence proportions (per 100,000) for all cancers combined, by sex, Canada, January 1, 2005

Cancer	Age group
Cancer	All ages	20 to 39	40 to 49	50 to 59	60 to 69	70 to 79	80 or older
Males
All cancers	1,433.7	183.8	486.0	1,656.3	4,898.2	8,287.8	8,945.3
Oral cavity and pharynx^†	45.4	5.4	34.2	88.6	147.3	180.1	186.6
Esophagus^†	8.3	0.3	2.6	11.4	32.6	47.1	42.5
Stomach^†	19.2	1.1	7.7	23.6	60.5	113.9	137.9
Colorectal^†	205.6	8.3	55.5	236.0	679.3	1,268.0	1,589.9
Colon excluding rectum^†	126.0	5.1	30.9	129.3	397.0	801.1	1,091.8
Rectum and rectosigmoid^†	79.5	3.2	24.6	106.7	282.2	467.0	498.2
Anus^†	4.6	0.5	3.3	7.4	16.0	20.0	23.1
Liver^†	7.4	0.7	3.7	13.8	25.5	33.7	24.6
Pancreas^†	7.5	0.6	4.2	12.1	27.9	33.6	39.4
Larynx^†	20.2	0.4	5.9	28.7	83.1	114.8	94.6
Lung and bronchus^†	88.7	2.0	19.3	97.4	324.9	596.1	543.3
Soft tissue^†	10.3	5.0	9.3	13.6	20.4	37.0	45.9
Skin melanoma^†	56.3	17.5	47.7	94.4	145.4	225.8	269.3
Prostate^†	539.7	0.3	31.6	500.1	2,222.2	3,727.0	3,512.4
Testis^‡	24.0	48.3	38.0	15.2	8.3	4.3	6.7
Bladder (including in situ^†	103.3	3.2	22.2	99.9	311.8	673.0	970.4
Kidney and renal pelvis^†	48.2	4.8	31.0	84.1	158.9	219.3	209.4
Brain	13.7	11.1	16.3	17.6	20.6	18.2	15.0
Thyroid^†	17.6	12.6	23.7	32.5	35.5	37.6	25.1
Hodgkin lymphoma^‡	13.1	19.6	14.9	11.4	13.9	14.1	9.3
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma^†	62.9	15.6	46.9	98.9	183.9	265.0	272.4
Multiple myeloma^†	15.2	0.7	6.4	21.8	51.2	81.3	103.9
Leukemias^†	42.2	10.2	20.7	51.3	111.9	176.1	243.1
Other, unknown^†	76.7	15.5	39.4	91.9	205.4	380.9	547.7
Females
All cancers	1,391.6	293.8	1,067.8	2,229.0	3,643.7	4,742.7	4,934.9
Oral cavity and pharynx^†	22.1	4.8	17.3	33.5	53.6	78.0	85.9
Stomach^†	10.7	1.0	4.9	11.4	24.2	47.5	68.3
Colorectal^†	172.3	7.8	52.8	176.2	424.9	812.6	1,143.3
Colon excluding rectum^†	122.8	5.2	32.8	114.9	290.0	592.4	873.4
Rectum and rectosigmoid^†	49.5	2.6	20.1	61.2	134.9	220.2	269.9
Anus^†	6.2	0.3	5.4	11.1	15.5	20.1	26.7
Pancreas^†	7.7	0.7	3.6	9.4	21.9	33.0	37.7
Lung and bronchus^†	83.3	2.6	35.3	116.6	282.9	398.9	270.7
Soft tissue^†	8.4	4.8	7.8	10.0	15.5	19.8	26.8
Skin melanoma^†	52.4	29.3	61.7	86.0	96.5	127.8	140.7
Breast^†	529.7	59.3	477.9	1,033.4	1,473.9	1,638.6	1,568.0
Cervix uteri	33.5	32.3	61.2	49.9	45.6	40.4	34.5
Corpus uteri^†	94.7	5.7	42.3	183.6	344.6	336.0	258.0
Ovary^†	38.6	10.5	36.7	77.2	105.3	109.3	72.8
Bladder (including in situ)^†	33.5	1.7	8.6	34.9	86.9	159.1	215.0
Kidney and renal pelvis^†	31.8	4.5	20.6	46.7	87.0	127.6	108.0
Brain	10.3	9.1	11.6	12.5	14.7	12.3	6.2
Thyroid	63.4	64.2	105.6	103.8	93.3	68.0	39.7
Hodgkin lymphoma^‡	10.3	18.4	8.7	8.2	7.4	10.9	7.2
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma^†	55.3	12.4	35.4	76.3	152.4	211.2	206.4
Multiple myeloma^†	13.2	0.5	4.5	15.7	36.1	62.8	71.5
Leukemias^†	29.5	7.4	15.8	29.0	58.4	105.5	136.5
Other, unknown^†	75.4	16.0	47.4	91.2	174.2	279.1	373.1
† statistically significant increasing trend in prevalence proportions across age groups ‡ statistically significant decreasing trend in prevalence proportions across age groups Note: Prevalence proportions were determined by a tumour-based analysis. Source: Canadian Cancer Registry, Statistics Canada and Provincial/Territorial Cancer Registries. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2009, " Cancer prevalence in the Canadian population", Health Reports, Vol. 20, No. 1, catalogue number 82-003-X.

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Table 3 Age-specific, five-year prevalence proportions (per 100,000) for all cancers combined, by sex, Canada, January 1, 2005

Table 3
Age-specific, five-year prevalence proportions (per 100,000) for all cancers combined, by sex, Canada, January 1, 2005