Recent Trends in the Incidence of Gastric Cancer in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gastric cancer (GC) incidence rates overall in the United States have declined over recent decades and are predicted to continue declining. However, there have been mixed recent findings regarding the potential stabilization of rates and potential divergent trends by age group. We used the most recent cancer data for the United States and examined trends in GC between 1992 and 2019, overall and in important subgroups of the population.

Methods

Age-adjusted GC incidence rates and trends in adults 20 years or older were calculated using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 12 program. Secular trends were examined overall and by age group, sex, race/ethnicity, SEER registry, and tumor location. We used joinpoint regression to compute annua

SUBMITTER: Liu KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10199958 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature