Stockholm: Rectal Cancer

In Stockholm, there were 1,062 deaths from rectal cancer over the study period (2000 - 2007).  This figure consists of 580 male deaths and 482 female deaths and is based on register data from Statistics Sweden linked to death records from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.  The spatial distribution of mortality due to rectal cancer in Stockholm is demonstrated in the maps below, shown separately for men and women.  For further information about how these maps were created, please visit the methodological section of the Atlas.

Men

Smoothed Standardised Mortality Ratio (sSMR)

Probability that sSMR is Higher than 100

Women

Smoothed Standardised Mortality Ratio (sSMR)

Probability that sSMR is Higher than 100