title: Prostate cancer mortality predictions for Ireland up to 2015.
abstract: The objective of this analysis was to predict average world age-standardized mortality rates per person-years (100,000 person-years) and numbers of prostate cancer deaths in Ireland for the years 2005, 2010 and 2015. Poisson linear and log-linear regression models of Irish prostate cancer mortality data for the years 1950-2002 were used to predict trends for the whole population, for men aged 0-64 and 50-74 years. The prostate cancer world age-standardized mortality rate in 2015 is predicted to remain unchanged from the average recorded in 1998-2002, while, because of population growth, the number of deaths is predicted to increase. In persons under 65 years of age, the world age-standardized mortality rate is expected to increase, but the number of deaths in this age group is expected to nearly double between 2002 and 2015. Similarly, the world age-standardized mortality rate for men aged 50-74 years is predicted to rise with the number of deaths in this age group expected to increase sharply. The historical evidence predicts a small increase of age-adjusted prostate cancer mortality rates in Ireland and only in the age groups of 0-64 and 50-74 years in the next 10 years, along with a continuing marked increase in number of deaths due to demographic change.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Registry, Elm Court, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Piaras
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: O'Lorcain
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Comber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007494:Ireland / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D013997:Time Factors; D014944:World Health Organization