Text descriptions and footnotes for the Road to Recovery: Cancer in the COVID-19 era report

Impacts on cancer mortality

DEATH COUNT BY MONTH, PEOPLE WHO DIED WITH BOTH COVID-19 AND CANCER, CANADA, 2020

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Note: Database does not include 2020 death records for Yukon.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics Database

DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO BOTH COVID-19 AND CANCER, BY CANCER TYPE AND SEX, CANADA, 2020

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Note: Database does not include 2020 death records for Yukon.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics Database

MEDIAN AGE FOR DEATHS JOINTLY REPORTED AS CANCER AND COVID

Lung cancer

  • Male: 76 years
  • Female: 76 years

Blood cancer

  • Male: 78 years
  • Female: 84 years

Colorectal cancer

  • Male: 86 years
  • Female: 86 years

Prostate cancer

  • 87 years

Breast cancer

  • 87 years

OTHER DISEASES LISTED AS CAUSING DEATH IN PEOPLE WHO DIED OF BOTH CANCER AND COVID-19, AS A PERCENT OF THOSE DEATHS, CANADA, 2020

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Note: Database does not include 2020 death records for Yukon.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics Database