Testicular cancer

[chickenfeet]

The thing about working in the Cancer Pits is that it is really tempting to dig around in the vast amount of data available here.  Actually it's publicly available so you could look it up too if you wanted to.  Today's statistical foray was into the exciting area of testicular cancer.  Ontario, it seems, has one of the highest rates of testicular cancer in the world and nobody knows why.  Age adjusted incidence has doubled in the last forty years though mortality has fallen very sharply.  The five year survival rate is now better than 96% compared with just 75% 40 years ago.

It could be worse.  The incidence of testicular cancer in Denmark is double the Ontario rate.  Fortunately for me, incidence peaks in the 25-29 year old cohort and declines more or less steadily thereafter.

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Fortunately for me, incidence peaks in the 25-29 year old cohort and declines more or less steadily thereafter.

Wait, is that peak for Ontario, Denmark, or both?

If it's just for Ontario, that's really suspicious.

What's the distribution spread?

For that matter, do you have a public URL? (He said, too lazy to google right this minute.) :)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

http://cancercare.on.ca/index_statisticsTestis.htm

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

That's creepy.

I do wonder about my cohort (being the 30-34 range) versus 25-29. It's certainly odd, the spike for 25-29.

Also whether it's any different for, say, NE / Northeastern US states. ("increasing rapidly in Ontario and in other populations of European origin") If I get the tuits, I'll try and look that up.