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This short story examines the impact of applying the new 2013 European Standard Population (ESP) to calculate age-standardised cancer incidence rates. This document focuses solely on the impact of applying the new methods to previously published cancer incidence data for 2011. Starting from this reporting year (2014/15), ONS outputs containing cancer incidence data will use the revised age-standardisation method. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: The impact of calculating cancer incidence rates using the 2013 ESP