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Table 2 The time trend of Cost of illness (COI) of stomach cancer

From: Cost of illness of the stomach cancer in Japan - a time trend and future projections

Item

 

1996

2002

2008

Population (thousand person)

 

125,865

127,433

127,690

  [% of 65 years or older]

 

15.1%

18.5%

22.1%

Number of stomach cancer deaths (person)

 

50,161

49,211

50,156

  [% of 65 years or older]

 

70.1%

76.2%

80.7%

Average age of death (year)

 

70.2

72.2

74.4

Crude morbidity rate (per 100 thousand)

male

109.3

115.1

NA

female

52.5

53.9

NA

Crude mortality rate (per 100 thousand)

male

53.0

51.6

53.7

female

28.0

27.1

26.6

Fatality rate

male

0.48

0.45

NA

female

0.53

0.50

NA

Direct cost (billion yen)

 

235.5

251.9

253.7

Morbidity cost (billion yen)

 

85.6

63.8

54.0

Mortality cost (billion yen)

 

972.3

918.7

806.4

  [% of 65 years or older]

 

24.9%

37.7%

42.0%

Mortality cost per person (million yen)

 

19.4

18.7

16.1

COI (billion yen)

 

1,293.5

1,234.4

1,114.2

  1. Source of population:Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications “Population Estimates”.
  2. Source of the number of stomach cancer deaths: “Vital Statistics”.
  3. Average age of death: Calculated according to the number of deaths, sex and age (5 years old age-grade), cause of death in “Vital Statistics”.
  4. Source of crude morbidity rate and crude mortality rate:Center for Cancer Control and Information Services, National Cancer Center, Japan.
  5. Fatality rate:We calculated by dividing the crude mortality rate by crude morbidity rate.
  6. NA: not available