Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

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Centenarians in Japan

The number of centenarians reached 10 158 in 1998, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan reported recently. Since the population of Japan is approximately 120 million, this number accounted for 0.01% of the whole population. The numbers of centenarians were 327 in 1968, 792 in 1978, and 2668 in 1988, indicating a 31-fold increase in 30 years and a four-fold increase in the last 10 years (see Fig. 1). Interestingly, the number of centenarians exceeded 1000 in 1981, soon after cancer became the leading cause of deaths in Japan, taking over the position from cerebrovascular diseases. This rapid increase in centenarians is, of course, a happy event, owing, at least in part, to the success in disease controls in Japan. When we focus on the issues of cancer control, this increase seems to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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