Gastric Cancer

Reports Summarize Gastric Cancer Research from Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 21st, 2011

2011 JUN 21 -- "The time trends of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease are shaped by a birth-cohort phenomenon. The aim of this study was to assess the extent by which a birth-cohort phenomenon also affected the long-term time trends of gastric cancer among different European countries," scientists in Portland, United States report.

"Mortality data from France, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, and Sweden of the past 56-85 years were analyzed. The age-specific death rates were plotted against the period of death as period-age contours and against the period of birth as cohort-age contours. The long-term time trends of gastric cancer mortality were found...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-06-21)

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