Technical report Cancer mortality in Switzerland, 1985-89

The aim of this report is to update data and statistics on cancer mortality in Switzerland from 1950 to 1984 by sex, age group and calendar period 1. Aggregate death certification data for the five-year period 1985- 89 are now presented. The materials and methods are similar to those previously utilized 1. Briefly, death certification numbers by cause and estimates of the resident population, stratified by sex and quinquennia of age, were abstracted from registries provided by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. All cancers or groups of cancers, originally classified according to the standard International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Eighth Revision/, were grouped in the same 30 categories adopted for previous reports, besides total cancer mortality and a broad group including other and unspecified. In particular, we grouped together all intestinal sites, melanomas and non-melanomatous skin neoplasms, all uterine neoplasms (cervix and corpus), all the neoplasms of the brain and nerves