Browse Specific Information by Cancer Type and Find NZ Researchers Working On The Ten Most Frequent Cancer Types

The NZ Ministry of Health (MOH) has published (14th December 2017)  the most recent Cancer Data and Statistics data of new cancer registrations in NZ in 2015. From these data the top 10 most common cancers in NZ in 2015 were:

Prostate cancer (87.5/100,000*)

Breast cancer (51.6/100,000*)

Colon, rectum and rectosigmoid junction cancer (41.1/100,000*)

Melanoma (35.4/100,000*)

Lung cancer (29/100,000*)

Uterus cancer (15.7/100,000*)

Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (12/100,000*)

Leukaemia (10.8/100,000*)

Kidney cancer (8.3/100,000*)

Pancreatic cancer (7.6/100,000*)

*(2015 data for new cancer registrations in New Zealand – published on 14 December 2017, Ministry of Health)