Cancer incidence and trends in Bombay, India
| Autor: | D. J. Jussawalla, B. B. Yeole |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Male
Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Population India Percentage distribution Risk Factors Neoplasms Epidemiology Humans Medicine Registries education education.field_of_study business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Public health Cancer medicine.disease Oncology Cancer incidence Mortality data Female business Demography |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Cancer. 28:1926-1928 |
| ISSN: | 0959-8049 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0959-8049(92)90038-4 |
| Popis: | DISCUSSION During 1977 to 1990,340OO new male cancer cases and 29 300 female cases were reported to the Registry and during the same period there were 18 269 male cancer deaths and 13 900 female cancer deaths notified. Table 1 and Fig. 1 shows the numbers of new cases, the percentage distribution, the crude incidence rates and the world age-standardised incidence rates per 100 000 males and females for 1990. Table 2 shows the corresponding mortality data and Fig. 2 shows South Australian 5-year survival rates as compared with rates for the United States. While the cancer burden in South Australia will increase with further ageing of the population, there is evidence that age-standardised cancer rates are stable for most sites, and in some instances they |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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