Cancer burden in the year 2000. The global picture.
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...Incidence tends to be low in Africa and Asia and intermediate in southern parts of South America....
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...Among the developing countries, the highest rates are observed in Central and South America....
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...usually greatest where rates were previously low.(2) Since the estimates for 1990, there has been an overall increase in incidence rates of...
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...The geographical distribution of stomach cancer is characterized by wide international variations; high-risk areas (ASR in men, 20 per 100,000) include East Asia (China, Japan), Eastern Europe, and parts of Central and South America....
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...In general, rates of incidence of colorectal cancer are increasing rather rapidly in countries where overall risk was formerly low (especially in Japan, but also elsewhere in Asia), while in highrisk countries, trends are either gradually increasing, stabilizing (North and West Europe), or declining with time (North America).(2) Such moderations with time have been noted particularly in younger age groups....
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...Some liver tumours have a highly specific point mutation involving a G:C to T:A transversion in codon 249 of the TP53 tumour-suppressor gene [166,167]....
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