Epidemiology of Adult Soft-Tissue Sarcomas in Germany

Table 4

Incidence rates for the five most common histologic categories of adult soft-tissue sarcoma per 100,000 inhabitants in nine German states, 2012.

Histologic category	Cases	IR	95% CI
Leiomyosarcoma	485	1.11	(1.02–1.22)
Liposarcoma	422	0.97	(0.88–1.07)
Sarcoma, NOS	385	0.88	(0.80–0.98)
Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic	344	0.79	(0.71–0.88)
Fibrohistiocytic	194	0.45	(0.39–0.51)

CI: confidence interval; IR: incidence rate; NOS: not otherwise specified. Population used for the denominator is those aged 18 years and older on December 31, 2012 (43,530,373).