How unlucky can you get?

Pete's Points
And if anyone has any clue about how 'lucky' I feel in being blessed with several bouts of oesophageal cancer then all they have to do is to interrogate the cubes I have referred to in my earlier post and find the following data for my age group.

Number of new cases and age-specific rates for selected cancers by year of registration, sex and 5 year-age groups

All Registrable Cancers (except NMSC) ---------------- C00 Lip C01-C14 Head and neck C15 Oesophagus C16 Stomach C17 Small intestine C18-C21 Colorectal C22 Liver C23-C24 Gallbladder C25 Pancreas C30-C31 Nasal cavity C32 Larynx C33-C34 Trachea, bronchus and lung C37-C38 Other thoracic organs C40-C41 Bone and articular cartilage C43 Skin?melanoma C45 Mesothelioma C46 Kaposi's sarcoma C47-C49 Connective and other soft tissue C50 Breast C51-C52 Vulva and vagina C53 Cervix uteri C54-C55 Corpus uteri C56-C57 Ovary and other female genital o... C58 Placenta C60, C63 Penis and other male genital or... C61 Prostate C62 Testis C64-C66, C68 Kidney, ureter and urethra C67 Bladder C69 Eye C70-C72 Brain and other central nervous ... C73 Thyroid gland C74-C75 Other endocrine glands C76-C80, C26, C39 Unknown primary site C81-C85, C96 All lymphomas C88 Immunoproliferative neoplasms C90 Multiple myeloma C91-C95 Leukaemias ---------------- Nest Columns All Years ---------------- 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 ---------------- Nest Rows All Sexes ---------------- Male Female ---------------- Nest Rows Nest Columns All Age Groups ---------------- 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75-79 80-84 85+ ---------------- Nest Rows Nest Columns All States ---------------- Nest Rows Nest Columns

MEASURES ---------------- Number Age-specific Rate ---------------- Hide Calculated Categories as values as % of row total as % of row subtotals as % of column total as % of column subtotals as % of grand total 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 All Years C15 Oesophagus 46 41 45 39 53 60 50 48 55 50 44 67 44 47 57 50 58 67 63 984

All Years ---------------- C15 Oesophagus Male 55-59 All States MEASURES ---------------- [+] C15 Oesophagus [+] Male [+] 55-59 [+] All States [+] MEASURES ---------------- [Hide Total] [Insert Calculation...] [Hide/Show...]

All Registrable Cancers (except NMSC) ---------------- C00 Lip C01-C14 Head and neck C15 Oesophagus C16 Stomach C17 Small intestine C18-C21 Colorectal C22 Liver C23-C24 Gallbladder C25 Pancreas C30-C31 Nasal cavity C32 Larynx C33-C34 Trachea, bronchus and lung C37-C38 Other thoracic organs C40-C41 Bone and articular cartilage C43 Skin?melanoma C45 Mesothelioma C46 Kaposi's sarcoma C47-C49 Connective and other soft tissue C50 Breast C51-C52 Vulva and vagina C53 Cervix uteri C54-C55 Corpus uteri C56-C57 Ovary and other female genital o... C58 Placenta C60, C63 Penis and other male genital or... C61 Prostate C62 Testis C64-C66, C68 Kidney, ureter and urethra C67 Bladder C69 Eye C70-C72 Brain and other central nervous ... C73 Thyroid gland C74-C75 Other endocrine glands C76-C80, C26, C39 Unknown primary site C81-C85, C96 All lymphomas C88 Immunoproliferative neoplasms C90 Multiple myeloma C91-C95 Leukaemias ---------------- All Years Male 55-59 All States MEASURES ---------------- [+] All Years [+] Male [+] 55-59 [+] All States [+] MEASURES ---------------- [Hide Total] [Hide/Show...]

There were certainly not many in my age group by 2001 but note the volume of increase in raw numbers and then as percentages since 1983. As I say in my opening lines this is a fast growing group of people, unfortunately I seem to be one of them!