Number of cases, person-years, and crude and age-standardised rates (per 100 000 person-years, age 0–99 years) of malignant mesothelioma (MM) by gender and year of diagnosis, Lombardy Region Mesothelioma Registry, 2000–2012
| Year | Men | Women | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Person-years | Rate | Cases | Person-years | Rate | |||||||
| Crude | Italy* | Europe† | World‡ | Crude | Italy* | Europe‡ | World‡ | |||||
| 2000–2012 | 2850 | 59 685 638 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 1592 | 62 922 196 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| 2000 | 174 | 4 340 561 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 103 | 4 630 593 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 182 | 4 358 338 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 99 | 4 645 746 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 193 | 4 374 405 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 116 | 4 659 197 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 209 | 4 417 259 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 104 | 4 691 386 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.9 |
| 2004 | 193 | 4 497 954 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 103 | 4 748 842 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
| 2005 | 219 | 4 579 992 | 4.8 | 5.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 120 | 4 813 100 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.9 |
| 2006 | 196 | 4 624 741 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 127 | 4 850 461 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 227 | 4 660 352 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 130 | 4 885 089 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 221 | 4 711 487 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 134 | 4 930 919 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.9 |
| 2009 | 252 | 4 762 370 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 107 | 4 980 306 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| 2010 | 254 | 4 802 363 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 155 | 5 023 778 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 255 | 4 844 524 | 5.3 | 5.6 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 166 | 5 073 190 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 275 | 4 711 292 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 128 | 4 989 589 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
| Change/year | +3.6 | +2.6 | +1.3§ | +3.3 | +2.5 | +1.6§ | ||||||
*Rates standardised on the Italian population, 2001.
†Rates standardised on the European population.
‡Rates standardised on the world (Segi's) population.
§From age-adjusted Poisson regression models.