Continuing declines in cancer mortality in the European Union
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serval:BIB_63AC7EBE1040
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Continuing declines in cancer mortality in the European Union
Journal
Annals of Oncology
ISSN
0923-7534
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2007
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
18
Number
3
Pages
593-595
Language
english
Abstract
BACKGROUND: From 1988 to 1997 age-standardised total cancer mortality rates in the European Union (EU) fell by around 9% in both sexes. Available cancer mortality data in Europe up to 2002 allow a first check of the forecast of further declines in cancer mortality. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We considered trends in age-standardised mortality from major cancer sites in the EU during the period 1980-2002. RESULTS: For men, total cancer mortality, after a peak of 191.1/100,000 in 1987 declined to 177.8 in 1997 (-7%), and to 166.5 in 2002. Corresponding figures for females were 107.9/100,000, 100.5 and 95.2, corresponding to falls of 7% from 1987 to 1997, and to 5% from 1997 to 2002. Over the last 5 years, lung cancer declined by 1.9% per year in men, to reach 44.4/100,000, but increased by 1.7% in women, to reach 11.4. In 2002, for the first year, lung cancer mortality in women was higher than that for intestinal cancer (11.1/100,000), and lung cancer became the second site of cancer deaths in women after breast (17.9/100,000). From 1997 to 2002, appreciable declines were observed in mortality from intestinal cancer in men (-1.6% per year, to reach 18.8/100,000), and in women (-2.5%), as well as for breast (-1.7% per year) and prostate cancer (-1.4%). CONCLUSIONS: Despite the persisting rises in female lung cancer, the recent trends in cancer mortality in the EU are encouraging and indicate that an 11% reduction in total cancer mortality from 2000 to 2015 is realistic and possible.
Keywords
Age Distribution, Breast Neoplasms, Europe, European Union, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Intestinal Neoplasms, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Mortality, Neoplasms, Prostatic Neoplasms, Sex Distribution, Time Factors
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Web of science
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Yes
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