Epidemiology of Adult Soft-Tissue Sarcomas in Germany

Table 2

All soft-tissue sarcoma cases, incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants in nine German states, by registry.

Federal state registries with at least 90% completeness	2003–2012^a		2012
	Cases	IR	Cases	Population^b	IR	95% CI
Bavaria	6,045	5.89	620	10,430,583	5.94	(5.49–6.43)
Bremen	365	6.55	33	555,794	5.94	(4.09–8.34)
Hamburg	850	5.75	70	1,460,601	4.79	(3.74–6.06)
Lower Saxony	3,806	5.87	361	6,452,746	5.60	(5.03–6.20)
North Rhine-Westphalia	7,061	6.02	926	14,617,533	6.34	(5.93–6.76)
Rhineland-Palatinate	2,252	6.78	182	3,340,484	5.45	(4.69–6.30)
Saarland	714	8.24	75	849,874	8.83	(6.94–11.06)
Saxony	2,277	6.28	263	3,484,777	7.55	(6.66–8.52)
Schleswig-Holstein	1,407	6.06	105	2,337,981	4.49	(3.67–5.44)
Total	24,777	6.10	2,635	43,530,373	6.05	(5.82–6.29)

CI: confidence interval; IR: incidence rate; ^a2006–2012 for North Rhine-Westphalia since this state joined the registry in 2006; ^bpopulation comprises those aged 18 years or older on December 31, 2012; the year-specific population of each state was used for each year's rate calculation, but only 2012 population data are displayed in the table.