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European cancer mortality predictions for the year 2017, with focus on lung cancer.

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Lung cancer rates in young European women are comparable to those in men, confirming that smoking has the same impact on lung cancer in the two sexes.
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This article is published in Annals of Oncology.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 242 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer & European union.

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Global trends and predictions in hepatocellular carcinoma mortality

TL;DR: Control of hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections has contributed to the decrease in HCC-related mortality in East Asia and Southern Europe, and predicted trends for some countries to 2020.
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Risk factors for lung cancer worldwide

TL;DR: Future preventive efforts and research need to focus on non-cigarette tobacco smoking products, as well as better understanding of risk factors underlying lung carcinogenesis in never-smokers.
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The epidemiology of lung cancer.

TL;DR: In the US, the recent legalization of marijuana for recreational use in many states and the rapid growth of commercially available electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) present challenges to public health for which little short term and no long term safety data is available.
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European cancer mortality predictions for the year 2016 with focus on leukaemias

TL;DR: The 2016 predictions for EU cancer mortality confirm the favourable trends in rates particularly for men, and continuing falls in mortality, larger in children and young adults, are predicted in leukaemias.
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Cancer statistics, 2016

TL;DR: Overall cancer incidence trends are stable in women, but declining by 3.1% per year in men, much of which is because of recent rapid declines in prostate cancer diagnoses, and brain cancer has surpassed leukemia as the leading cause of cancer death among children and adolescents.
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Pancreatic Cancer

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Permutation tests for joinpoint regression with applications to cancer rates

TL;DR: A joinpoint regression model is applied to describe continuous changes in the recent trend and the grid-search method is used to fit the regression function with unknown joinpoints assuming constant variance and uncorrelated errors.
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The 21st century hazards of smoking and benefits of stopping: a prospective study of one million women in the UK

TL;DR: The results suggest that among UK women born around 1940, two-thirds of all deaths of smokers in their 50s, 60s, and 70s are caused by smoking; smokers lose at least 10 years of lifespan.
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