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Cancer Statistics Digest |
Comparison of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Mortality in five Countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from the WHO Mortality Database (19602000)
Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center
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Oral and pharyngeal cancer mortality age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985 Japanese standard population) are shown for Japan, USA, UK, France and Italy (Fig. 1). ASRs for males in Japan are lower than for males in other countries until the first half of the 1990s (Fig. 1, left), while those in France have always been highest. ASRs in the UK decreased