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Annals of Oncology 2008 19(4):605-606; doi:10.1093/annonc/mdm598
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society for Medical Oncology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

editorial

Favorable trends in cancer mortality in the European Union but no room for complacency

P. Boyle

International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France

(E-mail: director@iarc.fr)

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My colleagues and I reported in this journal in 2003 that during the life span of the ‘Europe Against Cancer’ program, cancer mortality in the (then it was 15) Member States of the European Union (EU) had started to decline and that the estimated number of deaths in 2000 was 940 510 which was 9.0% fewer than the 1 033 083 deaths expected on the basis of application of the age-specific mortality rates from the mid-1980s to the 2000 population [1]. When all the mortality data for 2000 were eventually available (and only Belgium is still an estimate . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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