Environmental Factors Involved in the High Incidence of Bladder Cancer in an Industrialized Area in North-Eastern Spain

Table 2

Number of cases and estimated incidence of bladder cancer, crude and age adjusted to the European Standard Population and the World Standard Population, in European countries in 2018, compared to the study area.

Countries	Men				Women
	N	CR	AIe	AIm	N	CR	AIe	AIm
Germany	27,812	68.6	66.6	26.4	7,926	19.0	15.1	6.3
Austria	984	22.9	25.1	9.9	370	8.3	7.3	3.0
Belgium	3,503	61.7	70.2	27.7	955	16.4	15.1	6.4
Bulgaria	1,448	42.3	44.5	20.8	438	12.1	10.3	4.9
Cyprus	121	20.3	30.2	12.4	43	7.2	9.0	3.9
Croatia	994	49.5	55.5	23.4	346	16.0	13.7	6.1
Denmark	1,954	68.3	74.4	29.3	570	19.7	18.6	7.7
Slovakia	842	31.8	45.7	18.5	324	11.6	12.0	5.2
Slovenia	388	37.5	42.1	16.9	137	13.1	11.3	5.0
Spain	14,793	65.0	70.2	27.5	3,475	14.7	12.5	5.6
Estonia	201	32.8	42.4	16.7	78	11.2	9.1	3.9
Finland	947	34.6	36.9	14.0	245	8.7	7.3	2.8
France	13,408	41.8	45.6	17.2	2,874	8.7	7.3	2.7
Greece	5,106	93.1	95.1	40.4	694	12.3	10.4	4.5
Hungary	2,334	50.6	60.9	26.9	1,057	20.8	18.7	9.1
Ireland	680	28.5	41.8	15.8	260	10.7	13.5	5.5
Iceland	69	40.7	53.6	22.1	17	10.1	11.9	5.3
Italy	20,695	71.6	66.2	27.4	5,213	17.2	13.3	6.0
Latvia	361	40.7	51.3	21.1	167	16.0	13.1	5.9
Lithuania	425	32.1	41.3	16.3	157	10.1	8.2	3.4
Luxembourg	89	30.0	44.6	15.3	21	7.2	8.3	2.7
Malta	106	48.8	54.3	21.6	27	12.6	11.6	4.6
Norway	1,182	43.7	55.1	20.9	371	14.0	14.8	5.9
Netherlands	5,087	59.8	66.1	25.8	1,628	19.0	18.0	7.9
Poland	8,197	44.5	56.8	23.7	2,686	13.6	12.9	5.8
Portugal	1,765	36.2	36.0	14.6	575	10.6	8.3	3.1
United Kingdom	8,826	26.9	30.6	10.8	3,392	10.1	9.6	3.6
Czech Republic	2,169	41.5	49.5	19.8	774	14.3	13.1	5.2
Rumania	3,051	32.2	38.5	16.9	873	8.6	8.0	3.3
Sweden	2,177	43.6	46.8	17.8	682	13.7	12.7	5.1
Study area West Vallès Occidental	133	62.6	85.3	31.7	15	6.8	7.0	2.9
EU28	128,463	51.4	55.4	22.0	35,987	13.8	12.1	5.1
EU28 + EFTA	131,751	51.3	55.4	22.0	36,951	13.8	12.1	5.1

N: number of cases. CR: crude incidence rate. AIm: incidence adjusted to the Word Standard Population. AIe: incidence adjusted to the European Standard Population, 2013 (EU28 + EFTA). All incidence estimations are expressed per 100,000 people year. Sources [6, 27]: ECIS, 2020; REDECAN, 2019.