Welcome to the Cancer Epidemiology website. Cancer Epidemiology Unit is a department of the Epidemiology Center of National Health Institute of Rome (Italy). In this website you can examine and download cancer mortality data of 64 countries from 1955 to 2001, according to the available data.
The basic mortality and population information, used for data calculation were downloaded from World Health Organization (WHO) online database.
Our website contains deaths and mortality rates (crude and age-standardized), for every combination of age class, from 32 cancer causes of death, all malignant neoplams and all causes of death. Due to change in the International Classification of Disease (ICD) overtime, mortality data are subject to caution and were calculated according to the cancer codes table reported in the methods section. The age-standardized rates are calculated using World or European population as a standard. Population data are also available in this website.
We are grateful to the WHO for the really precious work for collecting and providing basic mortality and population data. We also want to thank the Data Processing Unit (SED) of the National Health Institute of Rome for the precious support and, specially, Paolo Roazzi (SED) for his valid work and suggestions.

Scientific Responsible Person: Riccardo Capocaccia *
Website and Database Responsible Person: Andrea Zappone

For any comment or further information, please contact the Cancer Epidemiology Unit.


* National Health Institute (Italy)