Trends in gynecologic cancer mortality in East Asian regions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate uterine and ovarian cancer mortality trends in East Asian countries.

Methods

For three Asian countries and one region (Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong), we extracted number of deaths for each year from the World Health Organization (WHO) mortality database, focusing on women ≥20 years old. The WHO population data were used to estimate person-years at risk for women. The annual age-standardized, truncated rates were evaluated for four age groups. We also compared age-specific mortality rates during three calendar periods (1979 to 1988, 1989 to 1998, and 1999 to 2010). Joinpoint regression was used to determine secular trends in mortality. To obtain cervical and uterine corpus cancer mortality rates in Korea, we re-allocated the cases with uterine

SUBMITTER: Lee JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4102735 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature