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Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007 37(4):319-323; doi:10.1093/jjco/hym020
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© 2007 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research

The Japan Cancer Surveillance Report: Incidence of Childhood, Bone, Penis and Testis Cancers

Tomomi Marugame1,, Kota Katanoda1, Tomohiro Matsuda1, Yuka Hirabayashi1, Ken-ichi Kamo2, Wakiko Ajiki1, Tomotaka Sobue1 and The Japan Cancer Surveillance Research Group

1 Cancer Information Services and Surveillance Division, Center for Cancer Control and Information Services, National Cancer Center, Tokyo
2 Division of Mathematics, School of Medicine, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

For reprints and all correspondence: Tomomi Marugame, Cancer Information Services and Surveillance Division, Center for Cancer Control and Information Services, National Cancer Center, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan. E-mail: tmarugam@gan2.res.ncc.go.jp

Received September 12, 2006; accepted November 22, 2006

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The Japan Cancer Surveillance Research Group and the Research Group for Population-based Cancer Registration in Japan have estimated cancer incidences in Japan from 1975 to 2000 based on selected population-based cancer registries (1). However, these estimations were restricted to major cancer sites. Neither more detailed sites nor histological type have yet been reported, although these analyses are of clinical interest.

Our research group collected data on newly diagnosed cancers between 1993 and 2001 from 15 population-based cancer registries in Japan (Miyagi, Yamagata, Chiba (model area), Kanagawa, Niigata, Fukui, Aichi, Shiga, Osaka, Tottori, Okayama, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Okinawa) (1). Detailed analysis of cancer, including rare sites, became . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   CHILDHOOD CANCER
 

   BONE
 

   PENIS AND TESTIS CANCER
 

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