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Cancer Statistics Digest |
Comparison of Leukemia Mortality in five Countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from the WHO Mortality Database (19602000)
1 Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center; 2 Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
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Leukemia mortality age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985 Japanese standard population) are shown for France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA (Fig. 1). While males show much higher ASRs, trends are quite similar for both males and females in last four decades in these countries. Japan shows the