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Comparison of Pancreatic Cancer Mortality in Five Countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from WHO Mortality Database (19602000)
1 Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center and 2 Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
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Pancreatic cancer mortality age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985 Japanese standard population) are shown for Japan, USA, UK, France, and Italy (Fig. 1). ASRs of pancreatic cancer for both males and females are quite similar for four decades in these countries. After