About us Mō mātou

About the Ministry of Health and the New Zealand health system. 

Regulation & legislation Ngā here me ngā ture

Health providers and products we regulate, and laws we administer.

Strategies & initiatives He rautaki, he tūmahi hou

How we’re working to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

Māori health Hauora Māori

Increasing access to health services, achieving equity and improving outcomes for Māori.

Statistics & research He tatauranga, he rangahau

Data and insights from our health surveys, research and monitoring.

Key findings

Number of new cancer registrations, 2015
 TotalMaleFemale
Māori2,4431,0781,365
Non-Māori20,70610,8679,839
Total23,14911,94511,204
New cancer registration rate, 2015
 TotalMaleFemale
Māori420.2412.4429.1
Non-Māori322.2347.9300.0
Total331.7353.8312.8

Note: rates per 100,000 population, age standardised to WHO World Standard Population

About the tables

These interactive tables provide the latest cancer registration data for New Zealand. When you choose cancers of interest from a list, the data and graphs automatically update based on your choice:

  • The ten most common cancer registrations for 2015 by ethnic group and sex. Data is also included for years 2006–2014 to enable trend analysis.
  • Numbers and rates of new cancer registration for groups of cancer, by sex for 2015.
  • Numbers of new cancer registrations for individual cancers for 2015, by sex, ethnic group, life-stage age group, deprivation quintile, district health board region and regional cancer network.

These tables form part of the Cancer: New registrations and deaths series. Other releases based on this data are expected to be published in 2018.

You can download these data tables from the Downloads section of this page.

Please note: The "New cancer registrations 2015" file was created in Microsoft Excel 2013 and may not be fully compatible with early versions of Excel. We apologise for this inconvenience.

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