Abstract
Purpose
Periodic cancer incidence estimates of Spain from all existing population-based cancer registries at any given time are required. The objective of this study was to present the current situation of cancer incidence in Spain.
Methods
The Spanish Network of Cancer Registries (REDECAN) estimated the numbers of new cancer cases occurred in Spain in 2015 by applying the incidence-mortality ratios method. In the calculus, incidence data from population-based cancer registries and mortality data of all Spain were used.
Results
In 2015, nearly a quarter of a million new invasive cancer cases were diagnosed in Spain, almost 149,000 in men (60.0%) and 99,000 in women. Globally, the five most common cancers were those of colon–rectum, prostate, lung, breast and urinary bladder. By gender, the four most common cancers in men were those of prostate (22.4%), colon–rectum (16.6%), lung (15.1%) and urinary bladder (11.7%). In women, the most common ones were those of breast (28.0%), colon–rectum (16.9%), corpus uteri (6.2%) and lung (6.0%). In recent years, cancer incidence in men seems to have stabilized due to the fact that the decrease in tobacco-related cancers compensates for the increase in other types of cancer like those of colon and prostate. In women, despite the stabilization of breast cancer incidence, increased incidence is due, above all, to the rise of colorectal and tobacco-related cancers.
Conclusion
To reduce these incident cancer cases, improvement of smoking control policies and extension of colorectal cancer screening should be the two priorities in cancer prevention for the next years.
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The authors thank to National Statistics Institute for the provision of data on mortality in Spain.
REDECAN Working Group: Albacete (Antonio Mateos, Enrique Almar), Asturias (José Ramón Quirós, Marcial V. Argüelles, Virginia Menéndez), Canarias (Dolores Rojas, Araceli Alemán), Castellón (Ana Torrella, Consol Sabater, Paloma Botella), Ciudad Real (Matilde Chico, María Ripoll, Cristina Díaz), Infantil de la Comunitat Valenciana (Marisa Vicente, Nieves Fuster, Paloma Botella), Cuenca (José María Díaz, Rosario Jiménez, Ana Isabel Marcos Navarro), Euskadi-Basque Country (Nerea Larrañaga, Joseba Bidaurrazaga, Arantza Lopez-de-Munain), Girona (Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Àngel Izquierdo, Loreto Vilardell), Granada (María José Sánchez, Elena Molina-Portillo, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco), La Rioja (Josefina Perucha), Mallorca (Paula Franch, Maria Ramos), Murcia (Carmen Navarro, María Dolores Chirlaque, Diego Salmerón), Navarra (Eva Ardanaz, Marcela Guevara, Rosana Burgui), Tarragona (Jaume Galceran, Alberto Ameijide, Marià Carulla, Jàmnica Bigorra), Registro Español de Tumores Infantiles (Rafael Peris Bonet, Elena Pardo).
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Galceran, J., Ameijide, A., Carulla, M. et al. Cancer incidence in Spain, 2015. Clin Transl Oncol 19, 799–825 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12094-016-1607-9
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