Cancer Mortality

Researchers compare Latin American cancer mortality to other countries

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 6th, 2005

Researchers in Italy sought to compare Latin American cancer mortality to other countries.

"Data and statistics on cancer mortality over the last decades are available for most developed countries, while they are more difficult to obtain, in a standardized and comparable format, for countries of Latin America," according to investigators. "Age standardized (world population) mortality rates around the year 2000, derived from the WHO database, are presented for 14 selected cancers and total cancer in 10 countries of Latin America, plus, for comparative purposes, Canada and the USA. Trends in mortality are also given over the period 1970-2000."

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-06)

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