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Cancer Statistics Digest |
Comparison of Bladder 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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Bladder 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 the USA and UK (Fig. 1) have constantly decreased since 1970. However, ASRs for males from the USA level off after 1990. Despite the decreasing trend in ASRs among males from the UK, ASR rates are still as high