title: Cancer incidence in Spain, 2015.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Periodic cancer incidence estimates of Spain from all existing population-based cancer registries at any given time are required. The objective of this study was to present the current situation of cancer incidence in Spain.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Spanish Network of Cancer Registries (REDECAN) estimated the numbers of new cancer cases occurred in Spain in 2015 by applying the incidence-mortality ratios method. In the calculus, incidence data from population-based cancer registries and mortality data of all Spain were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In 2015, nearly a quarter of a million new invasive cancer cases were diagnosed in Spain, almost 149,000 in men (60.0%) and 99,000 in women. Globally, the five most common cancers were those of colon-rectum, prostate, lung, breast and urinary bladder. By gender, the four most common cancers in men were those of prostate (22.4%), colon-rectum (16.6%), lung (15.1%) and urinary bladder (11.7%). In women, the most common ones were those of breast (28.0%), colon-rectum (16.9%), corpus uteri (6.2%) and lung (6.0%). In recent years, cancer incidence in men seems to have stabilized due to the fact that the decrease in tobacco-related cancers compensates for the increase in other types of cancer like those of colon and prostate. In women, despite the stabilization of breast cancer incidence, increased incidence is due, above all, to the rise of colorectal and tobacco-related cancers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To reduce these incident cancer cases, improvement of smoking control policies and extension of colorectal cancer screening should be the two priorities in cancer prevention for the next years.
authors.affiliation: Tarragona Cancer Registry, Fundation Society for Cancer Research and Prevention (FUNCA), Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV), Reus, Spain. jgalceran@grupsagessa.com.|University Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain. jgalceran@grupsagessa.com.
authors.forename: J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1584-7293
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Galceran
authors.affiliation: Tarragona Cancer Registry, Fundation Society for Cancer Research and Prevention (FUNCA), Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV), Reus, Spain.
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authors.affiliation: Albacete Cancer Registry, Health and Social Welfare Authority, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
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authors.affiliation: Canary Islands Cancer Registry (Gran Canaria), Public Health Directorate, Canary Islands Government, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
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authors.lastname: Torrella
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authors.lastname: Larrañaga
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authors.affiliation: CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.|Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council, IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain.|Department of Health and Social Sciences, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
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authors.affiliation: Tarragona Cancer Registry, Fundation Society for Cancer Research and Prevention (FUNCA), Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV), Reus, Spain.
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authors.lastname: Bigorra
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mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cancer; Cancer cases; Cancer statistics; Incidence; Spain; Trends