Secular Trends of Breast Cancer in China, South Korea, Japan and the United States: Application of the Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

Secular Trends of Breast Cancer in China, South Korea, Japan and the United States: Application of the Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

To describe the temporal trends of breast cancer mortality in East Asia and to better understand the causes of these trends, we analyzed the independent effects of chronological age, time period and birth cohort on breast cancer mortality trends using age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. We chose three...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhenkun Wang, Junzhe Bao, Chuanhua Yu, Jinyao Wang, Chunhui Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-12-01
Series:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Subjects:
breast cancer
mortality
APC
East Asia
US
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/12/14993

Internet

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/12/14993

Similar Items