Description for Chart 1
Percentage distribution of cancer incidence and mortality of the four most commonly diagnosed cancers versus all other types, Canada, 2007

There are two pie charts depicted here. The first one is a chart representing the distribution of new cancer cases, the incidence rate, focussing on the four most common cancers: prostate, lung breast and colorectal.

The second pie chart represents the distribution of the mortality rate, focussing on the four most common cancers: prostate, lung, breast and colorectal.

First, the pie chart representing the incidence rate of new cancer cases diagnosed in 2007.

The pie is split into five segments.

Prostate cancer accounted for 14.2% of all new cancer cases.

Lung cancer accounted for 14.0% or all new cancer cases.

Breast cancer accounted for 12.9% of all new cancer cases.

Colorectal cancer accounted for 12.5% of all new cancer cases.

All other types of cancer combined accounted for the remaining 46.4% of new cancer cases.

Source for incidence: Statistics Canada, Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) Database (July 2011 file) (CANSIM table 103-0550). New cases for ICD-O-3 primary sites of cancer, by age group and sex, Canada, provinces and territories, annual.

The second pie chart represents the mortality rates of the four most commonly diagnosed cancers, versus all other types in 2007.

The pie is split into five segments.

Lung cancer accounted for the largest percentage of all deaths caused by cancer at 26.7%.

Colorectal cancer accounted for the second-largest percentage of all deaths caused by cancer at 12.2%.

Breast cancer accounted for the third-largest percentage of all deaths caused by cancer at 7.3%.

Prostate cancer accounted for the fourth-largest percentage of all deaths caused by cancer at 5.2%.

All other types of cancer combined accounted for the remaining 48.2% of all deaths caused by cancer.

Source for mortality: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 102-0522. Deaths, by cause, Chapter II, Neoplasms (C00 to D48), age group and sex, Canada, annual.