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Jacques Ferlay
Researcher at International Agency for Research on Cancer
Publications - 145
Citations - 276378
Jacques Ferlay is an academic researcher from International Agency for Research on Cancer. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 129 publications receiving 211074 citations.
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Epidemiology and aetiology of gestational trophoblastic diseases.
TL;DR: Broad variations in the distribution of GTD exist worldwide, with higher frequencies in some parts of Asia, the Middle East and Africa, but the extent to which they can be attributed to methodological difficulties in obtaining accurate rates is unclear.
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Global cancer incidence in older adults, 2012 and 2035: A population-based study.
Sophie Pilleron,Diana Sarfati,Maryska L.G. Janssen-Heijnen,Jérôme Vignat,Jacques Ferlay,Freddie Bray,Isabelle Soerjomataram +6 more
TL;DR: The expected increase in cancer incidence at older ages will have substantial economic and social impacts globally, posing considerable and unique challenge to healthcare systems in every world region, especially in those with limited resources and weaker health systems.
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Prostate cancer incidence and mortality trends in 37 European countries: An overview
TL;DR: Prostate cancer mortality has been decreasing in 13 of the 37 European countries considered - predominantly in higher-resource countries within each region - beginning in England and Wales (1992) and more recently in the Czech Republic (2004).
The global burden of cancers attributable to infections in the year 2008: a review and synthetic analysis Web appendix section
Catherine de Martel,Jacques Ferlay,Silvia Franceschi,Jérôme Vignat,Freddie Bray,David Forman,Martyn Plummer +6 more
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International trends in hepatocellular carcinoma incidence, 1978-2012.
Jessica L. Petrick,Andrea A. Florio,Ariana Znaor,David Ruggieri,Mathieu Laversanne,Christian S. Alvarez,Jacques Ferlay,Patricia C. Valery,Freddie Bray,Katherine A. McGlynn +9 more
TL;DR: Gains in the control of liver cancer are at risk of being reversed by the growing obesity and diabetes epidemics, suggesting diabetes treatment and primary prevention of obesity will be key in reducing liver cancer in the longer‐term.