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Cancer Statistics Digest |
Comparison of Laryngeal 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, Tokyo, Japan
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Laryngeal cancer mortality age-standardized rates (ASRs), using 1985 Japanese standard population, are shown for Japan, USA, UK, France and Italy (Fig. 1). In all of the countries, males have higher ASRs compared with females. For males, ASRs have been decreasing since 1970s in Japan and France. ASRs in the other countries have