The Healthy Country? by Alistair Woodward

The Healthy Country? by Alistair Woodward

Author:Alistair Woodward [Woodward, Alistair and Blakely, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2013-12-31T16:00:00+00:00


Figure 28: Trends in cancer registrations (incidence) of selected cancers, by sex

Source: Ministry of Health, Cancer in New Zealand: Trends and Projections (Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2002) and Ministry of Health, Cancer Incidence Projections: 1999–2003 update (Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2008). Note that the estimate for 2016 is a projection with some uncertainty (that is not shown in graph).

Falls in cervical cancer incidence may be attributed to screening programmes and to some extent the reduction in smoking. There are many cancer trends, though, that we simply do not understand, such as recent increases in lymphomas, leukaemias and brain cancers.



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