OBJECTIVE: To forecast the @entity5 incidence and mortality rates in Spain for the year 2000, and to estimate the number of new cases and the number of dead @entity1 due to the @entity5 for this year. DESIGN: Ecological study with time series analysis. @entity1 : @entity5 mortality rates in Spain was obtained from 1905 to 1995. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Brow method was applied in order to forecast @entity5 mortality rates for the year 2000. An estimation of the incidence rates in Spain was obtained from the incidence/mortality rate (1.49 for males and 2.07 for females), given by the International Agency for Research on @entity5 (IARC). INE's publications were used in order to estimate the number of new cases and the number of dead @entity1 due to the @entity5 for the year 2000. The forecasting about @entity5 mortality rates in Spain for the year 2000 were 312.93 in @entity1 and 180.56 in @entity1 . An increasing in mortality will be produced in the following years. 90,000 @entity1 and 75,000 @entity1 will be diagnosed with @entity5 ; 61,000 @entity1 and 36,000 @entity1 will be died due of this disease. CONCLUSION: The trends in @entity5 incidence and mortality are increasing. These results could be interesting in health policy in order to plan different actions in the future.

[The prediction of the XXXX incidence and mortality rates in Spain for the year 2000].

@entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cancer', 'Cancer'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'PATIENTS', 'men']
@entity5 :: (MESH:D009369,Disease) :: ['cancer']
