Comment on 'cancer incidence in the United Kingdom: projections to the year 2030'

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"We agree with Mistry et al. (2011) that quantification of the future burden of cancer incidence is vital in health-care planning and that where risk factors are not well understood (as is the case for the majority of haematological cancers) projections from observed trends provide the best available evidence to achieve this. However, we are concerned that the projections they have recently published for haematological cancers, and which are widely disseminated via the Cancer Research UK CancerStats website (Cancer Research UK, 2012), are not credible and are likely to be based on incomplete data."