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This atlas is the result of the collaboration of a Scientific Committee and the National Vital Statistics Offices in each of the 28 countries covered. The five years covered by the atlas (1993-1997) provide mortality rates based on 5.5 million cancer death, representing the cancer experience in a population with 2.2 billion person-years of risk. The aim of this publication is not only to present cancer patterns in Europe but also to stimulate further studies on cancer epidemiology and generate hypotheses for analytical epidemiological studies.
Chapter 1. Aims and objectives
Chapter 2. The mapping of cancer
Chapter 3. Cause of death statistics: production process, quality and international comparability
Chapter 4. Member States of the European Union and European Economic Area
Chapter 5. Regional variation and spatial correlation
Chapter 6. Cancer mortality patterns by site
Annexes
Annex 1 - Map of the countries of the European Union and the European Economic Area
Annex 2 - Table of national age standardised (world) cancer mortality rate by site and sex, 1993-1997
Annex 3 - Table of populations by country, 1993-1997
Annex 4 - Cancer mortality maps by site