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Kidney Cancer
Kidney cancer deaths show overall decrease in Europe
April 24th, 2008
Overall deaths from kidney cancer have now fallen across Europe after peaking in the early 1990s, according to a detailed analysis of mortality rates for 32 countries published in the urology journal BJU International. The review is based on official death records collated by the World Health Organization from 1984 to 2004. Male deaths from kidney cancer showed an overall reduction of 13 per cent between 1992 and 2002 across the European Union and female deaths fell by 17 per cent during the same period. Figures for the previous decade had shown a 17 per cent rise for men and an 11 per cent rise for women. ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-04-24)
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