A comparative population-based study of prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in Singapore, Sweden and Geneva, Switzerland from 1973 to 2006

Chen, Cynthia; Naidoo, Nasheen; Yang, Qian; Hartman, Mikael; Verkooijen, Helena M; Loy, En Yun; Bouchardy Magnin, Christine; Chia, Kee Seng; Chia, Sin Eng

doi:10.1186/1471-2407-12-222

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A comparative population-based study of prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in Singapore, Sweden and Geneva, Switzerland from 1973 to 2006

ContributorsChen, Cynthia; Naidoo, Nasheen; Yang, Qian; Hartman, Mikael; Verkooijen, Helena M; Loy, En Yun; Bouchardy Magnin, Christine; Chia, Kee Seng; Chia, Sin Eng

Published inBMC cancer, vol. 12, 222

Publication date2012

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in men in Sweden and Geneva, and the third most common in men in Singapore. This population-based study describes trends in the incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer in Singapore, Sweden and Geneva (Switzerland) from 1973 to 2006 and explores possible explanations for these different trends.

Keywords

Adult
Aged
Binomial Distribution
Cohort Studies
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality/trends
Population Surveillance/methods
Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnosis/epidemiology/mortality
Registries/statistics & numerical data
Regression Analysis
Singapore/epidemiology
Survival Rate
Sweden/epidemiology
Switzerland/epidemiology
Time Factors

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires / Institut de santé globale / Registre genevois des tumeurs

Research group

Groupe Bouchardy Magnin Christine (Registre genevois des tumeurs) (532)

Citation (ISO format)

CHEN, Cynthia et al. A comparative population-based study of prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in Singapore, Sweden and Geneva, Switzerland from 1973 to 2006. In: BMC cancer, 2012, vol. 12, p. 222. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-222

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PID : unige:43649
DOI : 10.1186/1471-2407-12-222
PMID : 22673095

ISSN of the journal1471-2407

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