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Help text: Cancer is amongst the three leading causes of death at all ages (except for pre-school children) in the UK. It accounts for 26% of all deaths. Inequalities exist in cancer rates between the most deprived areas and the most affluent. Early mortality from cancer is a direct measure of health care need as public health interventions for prevention, early diagnosis and effective treatment can all reduce the burden of cancer morbidity and mortality.

This is the number of deaths from cancer for people aged under 75 years over the five year period reported. Mortality data by sex and five-year age group were extracted from annual files supplied to the public health observatories (PHOs) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for deaths registered in the calendar years over the 5 year period reported. Deaths were allocated to the deceased's lower layer super output area (LSOA) of usual residence using the August 2011 version of the National Statistics Postcode Directory.

Deaths from all underlying causes included. Population data are experimental mid-year population estimates for LSOAs, by sex and quinary age group, supplied by ONS to PHOs. Counts from 2006-10 were aggregated into MSOA geography.

MSOA deaths and population estimates were aggregated to higher geographies using standard geographical lookup tables obtained from ONS Geography. Expected deaths calculated by applying age-specific death rates for England in 2006-10 to each area's population.

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