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Global burden of cancer in 2008: a systematic analysis of disability-adjusted life-years in 12 world regions

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Age-adjusted DALYs lost from cancer are substantial, irrespective of world region, and consistently larger proportions of YLLs in low HDI than in high HDI countries indicate substantial inequalities in prognosis after diagnosis, related to degree of human development.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2012-11-24. It has received 531 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Years of potential life lost & Population.

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Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000-14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries.

Claudia Allemani, +594 more
- 17 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: For most cancers, 5-year net survival remains among the highest in the world in the USA and Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, while for many cancers, Denmark is closing the survival gap with the other Nordic countries.
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Global estimates of cancer prevalence for 27 sites in the adult population in 2008

TL;DR: The latest estimates of global cancer incidence and survival were used to update previous figures of limited duration prevalence to the year 2008 and highlight the need for long‐term care targeted at managing patients with certain very frequently diagnosed cancer forms.
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Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2010, Featuring Prevalence of Comorbidity and Impact on Survival among Persons with Lung, Colorectal, Breast or Prostate Cancer

TL;DR: The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries collaborate annually to provide updates on cancer incidence and death rates and trends in these outcomes for the United States.
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Gastric Cancer: Descriptive Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Screening, and Prevention

TL;DR: The epidemiology, screening, and prevention of gastric cancer are reviewed, including its incidence, survival, mortality, and trends over time, and risk factors are characterized, both environmental and genetic.
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Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008.

TL;DR: The results for 20 world regions are presented, summarizing the global patterns for the eight most common cancers, and striking differences in the patterns of cancer from region to region are observed.
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Cancer Incidence in Five Continents

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to establish a database of histological groups and to provide a level of consistency and quality of data that could be applied in the design of future registries.
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