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This new publication is an analysis of cancer registration data and mortality data over a five-year period. Its purpose is to give a measure of the comparative survival of cancer patients for 20 sites of cancer.

The cancer registration data used is from the years 1994 to 2003. This period follows the introduction of the Cancer Registry Act 1993, which resulted in more complete reporting of the incidence of cancer in New Zealand.

The sites for which survival data was calculated are:

• head, neck and larynx
• oesophagus
• stomach
• colorectum and anus
• liver and intrahepatic bile ducts
• pancreas
• trachea, bronchus and lung
• malignant melanoma of the skin
• female breast
• cervix uteri
• corpus uteri
• ovary
• prostate
• testis
• bladder
• kidney, ureter and urethra
• brain
• thyroid gland
• non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• leukaemia (all forms).

The statistical tables included in this publication can be downloaded as a Zip archive (4.1 MB) containing a set of Excel files.

The full publication can be downloaded as a PDF file (424 kB).

Alternatively, to order the printed publication, e-mail nzhis-pub@nzhis.govt.nz or contact the Publications Officer, NZHIS, PO Box 5013, Wellington, phone (04) 496 2000, fax (04) 496 2340.

Published 2006
58 pages, A4
A limited number of hardcopy publications are available free of charge
ISBN 0-478-30012-3 (book)
ISBN 0-478-30013-1 (web)