Breast cancer: data introduction
The following breast cancer data pages provide access to detailed statistics on breast cancer in Scotland. Most of this data is available through hyperlinks to the breast cancer statistics section on the ISD Scotland website. This includes data on breast cancer incidence, mortality, survival, prevalence and lifetime risk, which are all available from the ISD Scotland website as downloadable Excel files. The Cancer in Scotland summary report
(264Kb), produced by the ISD Cancer Surveillance Team, provides a statistical overview of cancer in Scotland, comparing breast cancer alongside other common cancers.
Table 1 summarises the dimensions / geographies breast cancer data are presented at, either within the data pages which follow or through hyperlinks to other websites.
Table 1: Data for Scotland available through the breast cancer data pages
| Data presented? | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data dimensions / geographies | Incidence | Mortality | Survival | Prevalence | Lifetime risk |
| By gender | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| By age group | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| By deprivation group | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| By NHS board area | Y | Y | N | N | N |
| By local authority area | Y | N | N | N | N |
| By community health partnership (CHP) area | N | N | N | N | N |
| Time trend | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| National target | N | N | N | N | N |
| Comparison with UK/GB | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
| International comparison | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
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