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Table 4

Examples of DALY for a variety of pathologies (source: Huijbregts et al., 2005).

Disease DALY
Oesophageal cancer 17.9
Stomach cancer 13.6
Colon cancer 8.8
Liver cancer 22.5
Lung cancer 16.5
Thyroid cancer 13.3
Skin cancer 6.3
Breast cancer 7.6
Ovarian cancer 13.3
Bladder cancer 5.0
Leukaemia 28.3
Other cancers 11.5
Nephrosis 12.4
Non-cancer disease 2.7
Congenital abnormality 6.2–80
Chronic pulmonary disease 8.2
Cataract 1.1

The incidence of oesophageal cancer corresponds on average to the loss of 17.9 years of life in good health.

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