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COMPARISON OF LUNG CANCER MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN SWEDEN 1959‐66
Author(s) -
Larsson Sture
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section a pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-4184
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1971.tb01854.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , lung cancer , medicine , demography , age groups , significant difference , cancer , mortality rate , lung , surgery , physics , sociology , optics
A comparison between the lung cancer incidence and mortality in Sweden during the 8‐year period 1959‐66 is presented. The incidence was higher than the mortality and the difference increased towards the end of the period. Conceivable explanations are discussed. The mortality attained 86 per cent of the incidence in the 4‐year period 1963–66. The difference was especially pronounced in the age groups under 70 years. Analysis of an unselected series of patients with primary lung cancer showed that it could probably not be attributed to divergencies between patient categories under and over 70 years in the distributions of histological types but very likely to an effect of successful surgery in the lower age groups.