Table 3

Distribution of cancer cases (2008 to 2012) and cancer-related mortality (2010 to 2014) by cancer site/type and socioeconomic status in Australia

Cancer cases by selected cancer site/type	Index of economic resources					Degree of inequality
Cancer cases by selected cancer site/type	Q₁	Q₂	Q₃	Q₄	Q₅	Q₁/Q₅	Q₁-Q₅	(Q₁-Q₃)/Q₁	(Q₃-Q₅)/Q₃	(Q₁-Q₅)/Q₁	Concentration index	(LMR of mortality)/(LMR of incidence)
Colorectal	16 746	16 446	14 770	12 941	12 620	1.327	4126	0.118	0.146	0.246	−0.014	–
Pancreas	3176	2980	2715	2438	2377	1.336	799	0.145	0.124	0.252	−0.015	–
Lung	14 142	12 310	10 488	8556	7196	1.965	6946	0.258	0.314	0.491	−0.065**	–
Melanoma	10 998	12 155	11 681	10 721	12 170	0.904	−1,172	−0.062	−0.042	−0.107	0.087*	–
Breast	13 504	14 363	14 075	13 959	15 735	0.858	−2,231	−0.042	−0.118	−0.165	0.104*	–
Cervix	938	894	756	752	688	1.363	250	0.194	0.090	0.267	−0.014	–
Prostate	20 657	22 087	20 793	19 057	21 636	0.955	−979	−0.007	−0.041	−0.047	0.076**	–
Kidney	3272	3158	2829	2568	2434	1.344	838	0.135	0.140	0.256	−0.014	–
Bladder	2881	2672	2508	2129	2011	1.433	870	0.129	0.198	0.302	−0.002	–
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	4653	4659	4564	4482	4654	1.000	-1	0.019	−0.020	0.000	0.001**	–
Unknown primary site	3264	3016	2525	2172	1966	1.660	1298	0.226	0.221	0.398	−0.031	–
Others	34 322	33 732	30 796	28 278	28 193	1.217	6129	0.103	0.085	0.179	−0.063	–
All cancers combined	128 553	128 472	118 500	108 053	111 680	1.151	16 873	0.078	0.058	0.131	−0.079**	–

Cancer-related mortality by selected cancer site/type	Index of economic resources					Degree of inequality
Cancer-related mortality by selected cancer site/type	Q₁	Q₂	Q₃	Q₄	Q₅	Q₁/Q₅	Q₁-Q₅	(Q₁-Q₃)/Q₁	(Q₃-Q₅)/Q₃	(Q₁-Q₅)/Q₁	Concentration index)	(LMR of mortality)/(LMR of incidence)
Colorectal Pancreas Lung Melanoma Breast Cervix Prostate Kidney Bladder Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Unknown primary site Others	4780 2906 10 935 1638 3064 334 3714 1109 1225 1594 3414 17 705	4426 2709 9749 1664 3013 267 3676 1037 1173 1608 3181 16 850	4037 2509 8248 1543 2780 207 3234 968 1057 1458 2587 14 944	3620 2247 6483 1367 2631 190 2651 769 869 1262 2228 13 041	3334 2105 5430 1367 2709 136 2568 707 827 1201 1937 12 327	1.434 1.381 2.014 1.198 1.131 2.456 1.446 1.569 1.481 1.327 1.763 1.436	1446 801 5505 271 355 198 1146 402 398 393 1477 5378	0.155 0.137 0.246 0.058 0.093 0.380 0.129 0.127 0.137 0.085 0.242 0.156	0.174 0.161 0.342 0.114 0.026 0.343 0.206 0.270 0.218 0.176 0.251 0.175	0.303 0.276 0.503 0.165 0.116 0.593 0.309 0.362 0.325 0.247 0.433 0.304	0.004 0.011 0.066* 0.034 0.048 0.095* 0.007 0.017 0.009 0.014 0.043* 0.001	1.081 1.034 1.025 1.325 1.318 1.802 1.514 1.167 1.033 1.327 1.062 1.180
All cancers combined	52 418	49 353	43 572	37 358	34 648	1.513	17 770	0.169	0.205	0.339	−0.011**	1.315

Qi=i th index of economic resources (i=1, 2… 5; higher i represents a quintile with most advantaged), Q₁-Q₅=least advantaged-most advantaged difference (LMD), Q₁/Q₅=least advantaged-most advantaged ratio (LMR). *p< 0.01, ^§p<0.05.
*p< 0.01, **p<0.05.