Pancreatic cancer mortality in China (1991-2000)

Table 1 Population distribution by age group in DSPs during 1991-2000 in China (10000)^a

Age group	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
0-	18.52	15.74	13.84	13.56	11.47	11.60	12.00	10.40	9.92	10.17
1-	72.69	66.59	64.06	64.94	57.60	60.96	61.20	52.76	49.51	50.16
5-	88.94	83.27	79.72	83.66	76.27	80.52	82.40	70.60	66.62	69.51
10-	91.70	87.86	81.64	83.12	75.32	79.54	87.59	73.59	73.60	79.71
15-	106.24	96.25	90.63	94.48	82.97	90.43	94.27	81.45	78.51	83.92
20-	105.41	101.42	97.64	101.40	88.72	95.43	98.82	83.81	81.04	83.31
25-	99.66	98.06	93.77	95.82	86.55	92.23	97.02	83.60	81.07	83.60
30-	82.29	80.92	77.13	81.59	75.30	82.17	84.81	73.89	73.50	76.26
35-	77.87	77.00	75.00	76.67	68.58	73.37	76.82	68.56	67.84	70.99
40-	60.53	61.85	60.06	63.28	60.86	65.06	67.89	61.70	59.62	60.93
45-	48.19	48.48	47.51	50.14	47.67	51.95	54.45	50.14	49.87	52.72
50-	44.32	43.93	42.62	44.74	41.93	44.51	46.30	41.76	41.83	44.05
55-	40.80	40.08	39.46	40.59	37.76	40.99	41.62	37.14	37.10	38.55
60-	33.19	32.92	32.91	33.93	31.45	34.80	35.64	32.22	31.98	33.01
65-	25.73	25.45	25.94	26.65	24.50	27.56	28.54	26.10	25.93	27.17
70-	17.85	18.32	18.31	19.16	17.60	19.66	19.82	18.13	18.18	18.95
75-	11.18	11.64	11.73	12.33	11.24	12.21	12.39	11.25	11.28	11.86
80-	5.92	6.33	6.14	6.64	5.86	6.77	6.66	6.09	6.35	6.55
85+	2.81	2.59	2.90	3.08	3.17	3.67	3.38	3.13	3.30	3.51
Total	1033.84	998.70	961.01	995.78	904.82	973.43	1011.62	886.32	867.05	904.93

^aPopulation of the surveillance points with poor quality deleted.

Table 2 Mortality rate of pancreatic cancer during 1991-2000 in China (1/100000)

Year	Death number	Reported death rate	Adjusted death rate	Age-standardized death rate	Deaths due to tumor (%)a
1991	151	1.46	1.75	2.18	1.83
1992	139	1.39	1.60	1.92	1.66
1993	129	1.34	1.54	1.80	1.51
1994	142	1.43	1.63	1.90	1.69
1995	145	1.60	1.85	2.12	1.79
1996	161	1.65	1.91	2.14	1.75
1997	168	1.66	1.92	2.18	1.86
1998	183	2.06	2.66	2.92	2.10
1999	186	2.16	2.78	2.96	2.23
2000	215	2.38	3.06	3.26	2.26

^aCalculated by reported death rate.

Table 3 Reported death rate of pancreatic cancer by age dur-ing 1991-2000 in China (1/100000)

Age group	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
0-	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
15-	0.19	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00
25-	0.22	0.11	0.00	0.11	0.12	0.06	0.16	0.19	0.26	0.06
35-	0.51	0.14	0.89	0.64	0.46	0.36	0.41	1.15	0.63	0.53
45-	2.70	2.06	2.44	0.95	1.45	1.76	2.38	2.50	2.84	1.65
55-	6.49	6.71	4.01	6.58	6.94	6.73	6.99	6.78	6.37	7.27
65-	9.18	10.74	9.49	9.17	9.98	11.86	11.17	13.11	16.55	18.87
75-	10.53	10.01	11.76	14.23	18.13	13.17	11.03	18.45	16.45	23.36
85+	17.82	7.74	6.89	13.01	6.32	16.36	14.79	15.98	9.08	17.10
Total	1.46	1.39	1.34	1.43	1.60	1.65	1.66	2.06	2.15	2.37

Table 4 Mortality rate of pancreatic cancer by gender during 1991-2000 in China (1/100000)

Year	Male				Female
	Death number	Reported death rate	Adjusted death rate	Age-standardized rate	Death number	Reported death rate	Adjusted death rate	Age-standardized rate
1991	98	1.86	2.23	2.94	53	1.05	1.25	1.49
1992	97	1.90	2.19	2.77	42	0.86	0.99	1.13
1993	81	1.66	1.90	2.36	48	1.02	1.17	1.29
1994	79	1.56	1.78	2.24	63	1.29	1.47	1.62
1995	94	2.04	2.36	2.87	51	1.15	1.33	1.44
1996	90	1.82	2.10	2.47	71	1.48	1.72	1.85
1997	98	1.89	2.20	2.61	70	1.41	1.63	1.76
1998	106	2.34	3.02	3.45	77	1.77	2.28	2.40
1999	108	2.44	3.15	3.57	78	1.83	2.36	2.40
2000	124	2.70	3.48	3.87	91	2.04	2.63	2.68

Table 5 Reported death rate of pancreatic cancer by the ad-ministrative district of DSPs, China, 1991-2000 (1/100000)

Year China	North China	Northeast China	East China	Central China	South China	Northwest China	Southwest China
1991	2.22	1.23	2.52	0.85	1.26	1.28	1.14
1992	1.43	2.43	2.10	0.86	0.90	1.93	1.15
1993	2.01	0.70	2.75	0.95	0.74	0.76	0.71
1994	1.27	3.18	2.62	1.13	0.60	0.88	0.92
1995	1.67	3.30	3.33	1.01	0.73	0.91	1.08
1996	1.68	3.37	3.34	1.27	1.07	0.67	0.78
1997	2.08	3.39	3.01	0.96	0.89	1.17	1.37
1998	1.80	4.26	4.04	1.31	0.51	1.61	1.85
1999	1.83	4.72	5.51	1.28	0.89	1.29	1.15
2000	1.55	6.96	4.31	1.26	1.48	0.73	1.79

Table 6 Mortality rate of pancreatic cancer by areas during 1991-2000 in China (1/100000)

Year	Reported death rate			Adjusted death rate
	Urban	Rural	Ratio of urban to rural	Urban	Rural	Ratio of urban to rural
1991	3.37	0.91	3.70	3.97	1.09	3.64
1992	3.00	0.92	3.26	3.37	1.06	3.18
1993	3.25	0.81	4.01	3.65	0.93	3.93
1994	3.50	0.84	4.17	3.84	0.96	4.00
1995	3.63	0.99	3.67	4.28	1.14	3.75
1996	4.12	0.88	4.68	4.86	1.01	4.81
1997	3.80	1.02	3.73	4.47	1.18	3.79
1998	3.77	1.56	2.42	4.99	2.00	2.50
1999	3.89	1.61	2.42	5.15	2.07	2.49
2000	5.53	1.54	3.59	7.32	1.97	3.72