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Health

Top 5 Leading Cancers by Gender

Data from Jan 2011 to Dec 2013

Last updated: 03 Apr 2025, 15:04 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Top 5 Leading cancers among Singapore residents

Top 5 Leading Cancers (2013-2017)

Data explorer

Top5LeadingCancersbyGender.csv (40 rows, 1.4 KB)

Start Of Period Text	End Of Period Text	Gender Text (Gender)	Type Of Cancer Text	Incidence Rate Text	Rank Text
(Null)0.0% 201125.0% 201225.0% 201325.0% 201725.0%	(Null)0.0% 201525.0% 201625.0% 201725.0% 202125.0%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 120.0% 220.0% 320.0% 420.0%
2011	2015	female	breast	65.3	1
2011	2015	female	colo-rectum	27	2
2011	2015	female	corpus uteri	15.5	3
2011	2015	female	lung	15	4
2011	2015	female	ovary	13	5
2011	2015	male	colo-rectum	38.6	1
2011	2015	male	lung	33.2	2
2011	2015	male	prostate	29.7	3
2011	2015	male	lymphoid neoplasms	17.6	4
2011	2015	male	liver	16.8	5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Start Of Period	start_of_period	Text	-	-
End Of Period	end_of_period	Text	-	-
Gender	gender	Text (Gender)	-	-
Type Of Cancer	type_of_cancer	Text	-	-
Incidence Rate	incidence_rate	Text	-	-
Rank	rank	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c375edebfa33e2ac0e29469a4755fc97"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Health. (2017). Top 5 Leading Cancers by Gender (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 21, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c375edebfa33e2ac0e29469a4755fc97/view

About this dataset

Contact

Erica_ONG@moh.gov.sg TAN_Le_Yi@moh.gov.sg

Created on

15 Feb 2017

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)