Digestive System Cancers
Upper gastro-intestinal (GI) cancers include cancers of the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, liver, gallbladder and pancreas.

Over the last 20 years, pancreatic cancer incidence and mortality rates have remained relatively stable. Incidence and mortality rates associated with oesophageal cancer have increased slightly, however stomach cancer incidence and mortality rates have decreased dramatically (incidence rate decreasing by 36%, mortality rate by 53%).
The most common upper GI cancers in 2004 were cancers of the:
Pancreas: 2075 new cases (2.1% of all new cancer cases)
Stomach: 1946 new cases (2%)
Oesophagus: 1208 new cases (1.2%).