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From: Using routinely collected data to stratify prostate cancer patients into phases of care in the United Kingdom: implications for resource allocation and the cancer survivorship programme

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People newly diagnosed, people living with prostate cancer by year since diagnosis and deaths for people with a prostate cancer diagnosis, UK, 2010. Data notes: prostate cancer (ICD-10 C61). Incidence is the number of newly diagnosed cases and is a count of tumours in 2010. Prevalence is a count of the number of people living with cancer at the end of 2010. Mortality is a count of deaths due to cancer only in 2010. In addition, a number of men living with prostate cancer will die from other causes. Sources: Office for National Statistics; Information Services Division (ISD) Scotland; Welsh Cancer Intelligence & Surveillance Unit; Northern Ireland Cancer Registry; Cancer Research UK Cancer mortality – UK statistics (Nov 2010); Maddams et al (2009).

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