Lower GI 2016

Anal cancer – Increasingly Common

English National Cancer Data Repository 1990 – 2010 ( all anal cancers diagnosed in England ) 69 % increase in age standardised incidence for SCC in men from 0.43 per 100,000 to 0.73 per 100,000 126 % increase for women from 0.5 per 100,000 to 1.13 per 100,000

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No change in incidence of anal adenocarcinoma

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• Similar changes reported in Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and the USA

( Wilkinson et al 2014 )