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Cancer Statistics Digest |
Comparison of Cancer Mortality (Stomach Cancer) 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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Age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985 Japanese standard population) of stomach cancer for both males and females have continuously decreased for four decades in France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA (Fig. 1). In both males and females Japan has the highest ASRs compared