For cardiovascular diseases, Latvia generally followed the same declining trend as OECD countries in the 2000s and has also experienced a slight increase in recent years as seen in OECD countries. With regards to cancer, the mortality rate has increased in Latvia since 2000, although death rates from all types of cancer among men and women have declined slowly in OECD countries during the same period. In Latvia, mortality rates from colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and cervical cancer have been increasing over the past decade.