PS01.07: Geographical Distribution of Lung Cancer Mortality Worldwide

Geographical Disparities of Lung Cancer Mortality Centered on Central Appalachia

This article explores regional disparities in lung cancer mortality for females and males and associated factors across central Appalachia and surrounding regions. It asks, how are lung cancer mortality rates distributed geographically, what are the relative contributions of specific factors to lung cancer disparities by sex, and how do the effects of these factors vary across the study area? T...

The geographical distribution of cancer.

STUDY of the geographical distribution of cancer has long been recognized to be one way of obtaining clues to its causation, and a great deal of work has been carried out to determine the incidence of different types of cancer in different parts of the world. Detailed incidence rates have been obtained for more than fifty populations, either by national or regional cancer registries or by speci...

Geographical mortality distribution of cardiovascular diseases: First report from South Khorasan, Iran

[Geographical distribution of mortality caused by stomach, trachea, bronchi and lung malignant tumors in Chile].

BACKGROUND Maps have played a critical role in public health since 1855, when John Snow associated a cholera outbreak with contaminated water source in London. After cardiovascular diseases, cancer is the second leading cause of death in Chile. Cancer was responsible for 22.7% of all deaths in 1997-2004 period. AIM To describe the geographical distribution of stomach, trachea, bronchi and lun...

Geographical patterns of cancer mortality in China.

This research note discusses the China cancer mortality data and the methodological problems involved in spatial analysis of these data. Some of the research findings produced by mapping and analyses of the cancer data at the provincial level are also summarized. The two most common cancers in China, stomach and esophagus, were found to have no significant correlation with some selected physica...