Changes in cancer incidence in teenagers and young adults (ages 13 to 24 years) in England 1979-2003.

Background: Cancer for teenagers and young adults represents a major source of morbidity and mortality. Trends in cancer incidence can provide pointers concerning how changes in the environment and in personal behavior affect cancer risks.

Methods: Data on 39,129 neoplasms in individuals ages 13 to 24 years who were diagnosed in England from 1979 to 2003 were analyzed.

Trends in cancer incidence by deprivation, England and Wales, 1990-2002.

This article examines trends in cancer incidence by deprivation in England and Wales, and at the Government Office Region (GOR) and Wales level over the period 1990-2002. The aim is to show whether the deprivation gap in cancer incidence between patients living in the least deprived areas and those in the most deprived has widened or narrowed over time for the three main cancers, breast (female), prostate and lung cancer. The results show that the deprivation gap in lung cancer incidence has widened in the majority of GORs and Wales, particularly in males.

Left-sided excess of invasive cutaneous melanoma in six countries.

To investigate the laterality of cutaneous melanoma (ICD-10 C43), we obtained data spanning the period of diagnosis 1998-2003 from six population-based cancer registries: New South Wales, Australia; England; Finland; The Netherlands; Scotland; and the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the United States of America (restricted to 'White' race category only). For cases with laterality recorded, the overall ratios of left- to right-sided tumours were calculated. We found that left to right ratios were consistently greater than 1.