Cancer in USA Europe
 

Site Distribution of Cancer (%) in USA and Europe

Site

USA (1997)*

Europe (1990)**

Male

Female

Male

Female

 Skin

3.0

3.0

 

2.5

 GIT

 

 

 

 

   Oral Cavity&Pharynx

3.0

 

 

 

   Stomach

2.0

 

2.7

5.2

   Colon & Rectum

8.0

11.0

12.4

13.8

 Respiratory

 

 

 

 

   Lung & Bronchus

13.0

1.0

21.9

5.2

 Urinary

 

 

 

 

   Kidney & Renal Pelvis

2.0

 

2.7

 

   Urinary Bladder

5.0

3.0

7.0

2.2

 Male Genital

 

 

 

 

   Prostate

43.0

 

11.8

 

 Breast

 

30.0

 

24.3

 Female genital

 

 

 

 

   Cervix

 

2.0

 

3.8

   Uterine corpus

 

6.0

 

4.4

 Leukemia

2.0

 

2.5

2.2

 NHL

4.0

4.0

2.4

2.2

 others

16.0

21.0

21.9

29.6
 

Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (Seer),Parker,1997

1.292.000 Cases from 18 European countries (Esteve et al,1993)