Testicular cancer: marked birth cohort effects on incidence and a decline in mortality in southern Netherlands since 1970

R Verhoeven, S Houterman… - … journal of cancer, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of our study was to interpret the changing incidence, and to describe the mortality of
patients with testicular cancer in the south of the Netherlands between 1970 and 2004. On
the basis of data from the Eindhoven Cancer Registry and Statistics Netherlands, 5‐year
moving average standardised incidence and mortality rates were calculated. An age‐period‐
cohort (APC) Poisson regression analysis was performed to disentangle time and birth
cohort effects on incidence. The incidence rate remained stable for all ages at about 3 per …
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