Long-term trends in incidence, mortality and burden of liver cancer due to specific etiologies in Hubei Province.

ABSTRACT: Liver cancer, a chronic non-communicable disease, represents a serious public health problem. Long-term trends in the burden of liver cancer disease are heterogeneous across regions. Incidence and mortality of liver cancer, based on the Global Burden of Disease, were collected from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Age-period-cohort model was utilized to reveal the secular trends and estimate the age, period and cohort effects on primary liver cancer due to specific etiologies. Both the age-standardized incidence and mortality rate of liver cancer in Hubei province were on the rise, although there were discrepancies between gender groups. From age-period-cohort analysis, both incidence and mortality of liver cancer due to Hepatitis B virus were the highest in all age g

SUBMITTER: Liu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902496 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature