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Main points

• In England there were 292,680 invasive malignant cancer diagnoses (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) registered in 2013. After age-standardisation there were 683.1 cases of cancer registered per 100,000 males, and there were 542.2 cancer cases per 100,000 females. Compared to 10 years ago, the age-standardised cancer incidence rate has risen by 2.8% for males, and 8.3% for females.
• Breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancer accounted for over half of the malignant cancer registrations in England for all ages combined.
• Broken down by age, leukaemia was the most common cancer in children aged 0 to 14. In teenagers and adults aged 15 to 49, male testicular cancer and female breast cancer were the most common cancers diagnosed. From the age of 50, prostate and breast are the most common cancers for males and females respectively.
• The cancer incidence rate was 11.5% higher (for all persons) in the North West of England compared with London after taking into account differences in the age structure of their respective populations. When focusing on different cancer sites the regional differences changed. For example, the prostate cancer incidence rate was 30.5% higher in the South East of England compared with the North East.

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