Newly diagnosed cancer cases and deaths for 1998

Newly diagnosed invasive cancer cases (ICD-9 codes 140-208, without skin cancer, 173) totalled 16,474, i.e. 8,717 males and 7,757 females. There was an incidence rate of 344.3/100,000, or 376.0 for males and 314.6 for females. The male-female ratio was 53:47. 
In 1998 Croatia recorded 11,412 cancer deaths (6,696 male and 4,716 female). Total mortality rate was found to be 238.5, or 288.8 in males and 191.3/100,000 in females. The male-female ratio of 59:41 reflects a continued high lethality of bronchial and pulmonary cancers, the leading cancer site in males.


Leading cancer sites

The five most common cancer sites making up 55% of new male cancer cases involved the bronchus and lungs (25%), stomach (8%), prostate (8%), colon (7%) and rectum (7%). In females, the five most common cancer sites, namely the breast (25%), rectum (7%), colon (6%), uterine corpus (6%), bronchus and lungs (6%) accounted for 50% of cancer cases. Combined, colonic and rectal cancers represented 14% in males and 13% in females incidence.