Trends in major cancer mortality in Korea, 1983–2012, with a joinpoint analysis

Highlights • Age-standardized mortality rates (ASRs) for all cancers in Korea peaked in 1994 and declined. • ASRs for esophagus and liver cancers increased until the early 1990s and then declined. • ASR for colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers increased until the early 2000s. • ASRs for stomach ca...

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Published inCancer epidemiology Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 939 - 946
Main Authors Lim, Daroh, Ha, Mina, Song, Inmyung
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2015
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adult
Age Distribution
Breast cancer
Cancer
Epidemiology
Female
Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine
Humans
Internal Medicine
Joinpoint
Korea
Lymphoma
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Neoplasms - mortality
Republic of Korea - epidemiology
Sex Distribution
Trend
Trends
Womens health
Republic of Korea
Trend
Joinpoint
Mortality
Cancer
Korea
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Summary:Highlights • Age-standardized mortality rates (ASRs) for all cancers in Korea peaked in 1994 and declined. • ASRs for esophagus and liver cancers increased until the early 1990s and then declined. • ASR for colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers increased until the early 2000s. • ASRs for stomach cancer declined consistently except for 1990–1994. • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma showed a consistently upward trend.
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ISSN:1877-7821
1877-783X
DOI:10.1016/j.canep.2015.10.023