Comparison of time trends in stomach cancer mortality (1990-2006) in the world, from the WHO mortality database.

摘要

Mortality data, abstracted from the World Health Organization (WHO) database, are available for various countries. We used stomach cancer mortality (ICD-10: C16) in 11 countries during the period 1990-2006. These countries were Japan, China (Hong Kong) and the Republic of Korea (Asian countries); the United States of America (USA); Australia; the Russian Federation, United Kingdom (UK), Italy, Spain, France and Germany (European countries). For the USA, Spain and France, data were available only for 1990-2005; and for Australia and Italy, for 1990-2003. The world population was used for age standardization.