Abstract
The epidemiologic study of cancer is based primarily on mortality, morbidity, clinical, and autopsy statistics. The analysis of the results of a mass survey examination of the stomach has contributed considerably to the epidemiologic study of gastric cancer. We present a survey of the literature on stomach cancer mortality and incidence in relation to geography, age, sex, race, and environment. Thereupon, we offer the results and evaluate the effects of a mass survey examination of the stomach which was begun in 1960 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is to be noted that the mortality rate from stomach cancer per 10,000 persons per year in the nonexamined group was approximately 2.4 times higher than that of the examined group.
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L'étude épidémiologique du cancer est basée surtout sur la mortalité, la morbidité, les études cliniques et autopsiques. L'épidémiologie du cancer gastrique a beaucoup progressé grâce à des études systémiques de populations par dépistage. Nous présentons une revue de la littérature analysant la fréquence et la mortalité du cancer gastrique en fonction de la localisation géographique, de l'âge, du sexe, de la race, de l'environnement. Nous analysons les résultats d'une étude systématique de dépistage commencé en 1960 dans la préfecture de Miyagi, au Japon. La mortalité par cancer gastrique est 2.4 fois plus élevée dans le groupe de sujets non soumis au dépistage systématique que dans la population régulièrement examinée.
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Yamagata, S., Hisamichi, S. Epidemiology of cancer of the stomach. World J. Surg. 3, 663–669 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01654784
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