Open AccessIs gastric cancer becoming a rare disease? A global assessment of predicted incidence trends to 2035
Author(s) -
Melina Arnold,
Jin Young Park,
M. Constanza Camargo,
Nuno Lunet,
David Forman,
Isabelle Soerjomataram
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gut
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.413
H-Index - 293
eISSN - 1468-3288
pISSN - 0017-5749
DOI - 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-320234
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , demography , medicine , cancer , population , disease , cohort , environmental health , physics , optics , sociology
The incidence of gastric cancer continues to decrease globally, approaching levels that in some populations could define it as a rare disease. To explore this on a wider scale, we predict its future burden in 34 countries with long-standing population-based data.