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Cancer Statistics Digest |
Comparison of Cancer Mortality (Rectal Cancer) in Five Countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from WHO Mortality Database (19602000)
Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center
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Overall males have higher age-standardized mortality rates (ASRs) compared with females, although long-term trends in ASRs differ substantially between countries. In males from France and the UK a steady decreasing trend is observed, while Italy and the USA exhibit a bottoming out after a decreasing trend over the study period. Japan exhibits an