Colorectal cancer screening in Europe

Table 3 Epidemiology of colorectal cancer in the Europe (96 individual cancer registries, 1998-2002)

Parameter incidence	Sex	C18-C21	Individual diagnoses
			C18	C19-C20	C21
Crude incidence (cases/100.000 inhabitants)	Men	63.9	37.1	26.0	0.8
	Women	53.7	34.8	17.6	1.3
	All	58.6	35.9	21.7	1.1
ASR-E	Men	58.0	33.5	23.7	0.8
	Women	36.8	23.4	12.4	1.0
	All	45.8	27.6	17.3	0.9
ASR-W	Men	38.5	22.0	15.9	0.5
	Women	24.6	15.5	8.4	0.7
	All	30.6	18.3	11.7	0.6
Mean age (yr)	Men	69.1	69.7	68.2	65.4
	Women	71.3	71.9	70.4	67.7
	All	70.1	70.8	69.1	66.8
Ratio (males: females) (based on No. of cases)		1.1:1	1.0:1	1.4:1	0.6:1

Adapted from: Curado MP, Edwards B, Shin HR, Storm H, Ferlay J, Heanue M, Boyle P, editors. Cancer Incidence in Five Continents, Vol. IX. IARC Scientific Publications No. 160, Lyon: IARC, 2007. Available from: URL: http://www-dep.iarc.fr/ section CI5 IX. Last accessed on August 8, 2009. ASR-W: World age standardization.