Cancer Statistics
Acknowledgement
The majority of the information published on these web pages uses data shared by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support.
Detailed Scottish Cancer Data
Use the left-hand navigation links to access data on cancers in Scotland. In addition to statistics, you will also find other information about each cancer, including context and background information on coding and historical changes to the classification of the cancers.
Please note:
- Within each page some files are quite large and may take a few minutes to download.
- You may need to use the drop-down menus within the spreadsheets to define your selections of 'Area of Residence', 'Sex', and 'Cancer site/type' to find the data that you require.
Data Visualisation
Links to our most recent data visualisations for cancer statistics:
Cancer survival (still to be developed)
Summary and interpretive reports
A summary of changes in mortality
[277Kb] rate over the last 10 years.
A summary of incidence and mortality by ICD10 code
[277Kb].
A summary of changes in incidence
[187Kb] rate over the last ten years.
Number of patients treated
[187Kb] by treatment type for All cancer types combined.
Cancer in Scotland
[499Kb] is an overview of cancer in Scotland focusing on incidence, mortality and survival for the main cancer sites. The format and presentation of this document is currently being reviewed. The 2018 mortality information will be included in the revised version.

