UPDATES AND VERSION NUMBER

Current database version:

2.0, December 2011.

This release of the GLOBOCAN 2008 database (version 2.0) contains estimates of the 1, 3, and 5 year prevalence of cancer in 2008 in adult population. Incidence and mortality estimates (version 1.2) are unchanged.

Last database version:

1.2, December 2010.

This release of the GLOBOCAN 2008 database (version 1.2) contains data for ten age-groups, and includes estimates for Maldives and Timor-Leste together with updated estimates for the following countries:
  1. Austria (incidence and mortality)
  2. Belgium (incidence)
  3. Bosnia Herzegovina (incidence and mortality)
  4. Bulgaria (incidence and mortality)
  5. Croatia (incidence and mortality)
  6. Czech Republic (incidence and mortality)
  7. Denmark (incidence)
  8. Estonia (mortality)
  9. Finland (incidence and mortality)
  10. Greece (incidence and mortality)
  11. Hungary (incidence and mortality)
  12. Iceland (incidence and mortality)
  13. Iraq (incidence and mortality)
  14. Republic of Ireland (mortality)
  15. Jordan (incidence and mortality)
  16. Kazakhstan (incidence and mortality)
  17. Kyrgyzstan (incidence and mortality)
  18. Latvia (mortality)
  19. Lithuania (mortality)
  20. Montenegro (incidence and mortality)
  21. Oman (incidence and mortality)
  22. The Netherlands (incidence and mortality)
  23. Norway (incidence)
  24. Poland (incidence and mortality)
  25. Serbia (incidence and mortality)
  26. Slovenia (incidence and mortality)
  27. Syrian Arab Republic (incidence and mortality)
  28. Ukraine (incidence and mortality)
  29. United Kingdom (incidence)
  30. Yemen (incidence and mortality)

Previous database version:

1.1, August 2010.

The release of the GLOBOCAN 2008 database (version 1.1) included correction of the errors found since the first release of GLOBOCAN 2008 (version 1.0 released June 2010) listed under Errata.

First database version:

1.0, June 2010.
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