Cancer mortality rates in Europe are variable

"Mortality data, abstracted from the World Health Organization database, are presented in tabular form for 26 cancer sites or groups of sites, plus total cancer mortality, in 36 European countries during the period 1995-1999. Trends in mortality are also given in graphic form for 23 major countries plus the European Union as a whole over the period 1960-1999," scientists writing in the International Journal of Cancer report.

"In the European Union," wrote F. Levi and coworkers, "total cancer mortality declined by 7% for both sexes over the last 5 years considered. The fall since the late 1980s was...

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