Cancer mortality rate by region & gender 2016

This statistic shows the rate of mortality to cancer incidence excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in England in 2016, by region and gender. Cancer is an aggregation of diseases in which cells within the body grow abnormally, often spreading to other parts of the body. In this year, in the north east of England 51 percent of males and 46 percent females who were diagnosed died as a result of cancer, excluding NMSC, this is the highest recorded rate among males and females.

Rate of mortality to cancer incidence in England in 2016, by region and gender*

Region	Females	Males
North East	0.46	0.51
West Midlands	0.45	0.48
North West	0.44	0.48
Yorkshire and The Humber	0.44	0.48
England	0.43	0.47
East Midlands	0.44	0.47
South West	0.42	0.47
East	0.44	0.45
South East	0.42	0.45
London	0.39	0.43

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Release date

June 2018

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

* Information from the source: "Cancer registrations in England can take up to 5 years after the end of a given calendar year to reach 100% completeness, due to the continuing accrual of late registrations. Therefore, published figures for 2016 are likely to increase in future publications when late registrations are included. The 2016 data has been assessed as 98% complete and there are likely to be late registrations provided after this publication."

Cancer mortality to incidence ratios are calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of incidences for each given site, sex and region. If the rate exceeds 1, this means that more people died in that period than there were new registrations. The people who died, however, may have been diagnosed in a previous period. In other words, the deaths are not necessarily directly linked to the incidents.

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