Cancer Registration Statistics, England 2020

Figure 4 shows that the age-specific incidence rates of all malignant cancer (excluding NMSC) in 2020 generally increased with age for both males and females. The age-specific incidence rates of cancer were higher for females aged between 15 and 59 than for males. However, from age 60 onwards, the age-specific cancer incidence rates for males were higher than for females.

The changes in age-specific incidence rates between 2019 and 2020 reflect the changes in the number of registered cancer diagnoses for each age group, gender and cancer site. The only age-specific incidence rates that increased between 2019 and 2020 for all cancers was for males for the ages 1 to 4, 9 and 15 to 19; all these increases were small numerically and proportionately. All the other age-specific incidence rates for all cancers fell between 2019 and 2020 reflecting the changes in the number of registered cancer diagnoses for each age group and gender (Figure 5).