Age-specific worldwide trends in cancer mortality were reviewed, with emphasis on cancer
sites where increases have been reported in the USA. Cancer rates vary by factors as high …

Trends in mortality from cancer in the European Union, 1 9 5 5 – 9 4 Page 1 1985–89 to 49·8
in 1990–94) in deaths from lung cancer; a levelling of the rises of deaths from large bowel …

Trends in age-standardised mortality for all cancers and 21 cancers or groups of cancers
over the period 1955–1992 were analysed for 33 countries from four continents in a …

Abstract From 1968 to 1983, age-specific cancer mortality for all cancers fell by 2· 1%
annually for men and women aged 35-44 and rose by 1· 1% annually for men and 0· 3% for …

In the year 2000 there will be 10 million new cases of cancer diagnosed worldwide,
excluding non-melanoma skin cancers. Even if age-specific rates remain unchanged, large …

Background Cancer survival varies widely between countries. The CONCORD study
provides survival estimates for 1· 9 million adults (aged 15–99 years) diagnosed with a first …

Background There are no recent estimates of the incidence and mortality from cancer at a
European level. Those data that are available generally refer to the mid-1990s and are of …

After long-term rises, over the last decade age-standardised mortality from most common
cancer sites has fallen in the European Union (EU). For males, the fall was 11% for lung and …

An epidemiological assessment of the status and trends of cancer mortality shows that
Europe is still divided by the rate of cancer death. Overall, cancer mortality in Europe has …

We present here worldwide estimates of annual mortality from all cancers and for 25 specific
cancer sites around 1990. Crude and age‐standardised mortality rates and numbers of …