There are around 2,700 new acute myeloid leukaemia cases every year; that’s more than 7 every day (2019, 2021-2022). Each year around two-fifths (41%) of all new acute myeloid leukaemia cases in the UK are diagnosed in people aged 75 and over (2019, 2021-2022).
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Acute myeloid leukaemia accounts for 1% of all new cancer cases in the UK, with around 1,200 new cases in females and around 1,500 new cases in males every year (2019, 2021-2022).
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Incidence rates for acute myeloid leukaemia are highest in people aged 90+ in the UK, with 5 in 100 (5%) of all new acute myeloid leukaemia cases diagnosed in this age group (2019, 2021-2022).
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Acute myeloid leukaemia incidence rates have remained stable in the UK since the early 1990s and rates have decreased by around a fifth (21%) in the last decade (2019, 2021-2022).
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Incidence rates for acute myeloid leukaemia are lower in the Asian ethnic group, and similar in the Black ethnic group, compared with the White ethnic group, in England (2013-2017).
Read our publication Cancer Incidence by Broad Ethnic Group for more details.
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Calculated by the Cancer Intelligence Team at Cancer Research UK, April 2020. Based on method reported in National Cancer Intelligence Network Cancer by Deprivation in England Incidence, 1996-2010 Mortality, 1997-2011. Using cancer incidence data 2013-2017 (Public Health England) and population data 2013-2017 (Office for National Statistics) by Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2015 income domain quintile, cancer type, sex, and five-year age band.
