Skip Navigation

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005 35(3):168-170; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyi048
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Marugame, T.
Right arrow Articles by Yoshimi, I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Marugame, T.
Right arrow Articles by Yoshimi, I.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?


© 2005 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research

Cancer Statistics Digest

Comparison of Cancer Mortality (Lung Cancer) in Five Countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from the WHO Mortality Database (1960–2000)

Tomomi Marugame and Itsuro Yoshimi

Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

Lung cancer mortality age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985 Japanese standard population) are shown for Japan, USA, UK, France, and Italy (Fig 1). For men (Fig. 1, left), all five countries experienced a rapid increase in ASRs of lung cancer since the 1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s, ASRs of lung cancer for men in the UK and USA were much higher compared with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?