Age-standardised incidence rate of the top three cancers by gender and 5-year period

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Agestandardisedincidencerateofthetopthreecancersbygenderand5yearperiod.csv (48 rows, 1.4 KB)

Period starting Year (YYYY)	Period ending Year (YYYY)	Site Text	Gender Text	ASIR Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1976	1980	colorectal	male	27.3
1976	1980	colorectal	female	23.4
1976	1980	lung	male	62.6
1976	1980	lung	female	19.6
1976	1980	prostate	male	5.9
1976	1980	breast	female	24.6
1981	1985	colorectal	male	28.2
1981	1985	colorectal	female	25.8
1981	1985	lung	male	61.9
1981	1985	lung	female	20.7

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Period starting	period_starting	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Period ending	period_ending	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Site	site	Text	-	-
Gender	gender	Text	-	-
ASIR	asir	Numeric	per 100000 Singapore residents	Age standardized incidence rate

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c8f6e2c1ac21eb0d87c23cd1b4e02715"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Health Promotion Board. (2018). Age-standardised incidence rate of the top three cancers by gender and 5-year period (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c8f6e2c1ac21eb0d87c23cd1b4e02715/view

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Agestandardisedincidencerateofthetopthreecancersbygenderand5yearperiod.csv (48 rows, 1.4 KB)

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