Epidemiology of gastric cancer and perspectives for prevention Epidemiología del cáncer gástrico y perspectivas para su prevención

The most recent estimates of the world-wide incidence of cancer indicate that gastric cancer was in 1990 the second most frequent cancer in the world (after lung cancer), with about 900 000 new cases diagnosed every year. Steady declines in the rates have been observed everywhere in the last few dec...

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Main Authors: NUBIA MUÑOZ, SILVIA FRANCESCHI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 1997-07-01
Series:Salud Pública de México
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-36341997000400010