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Trends in Gastrointestinal Cancer Mortality Rate in Hungary

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The aim of this study was to investigate the annual death trends for gastrointestinal cancer in Hungary between 1963 and 2012. Data on the numbers of cancer deaths were obtained from the published nationwide population register. Numbers of deaths from esophageal, gastric and colorectal cancer were available during the study period. However, the mortality data for hepatic, pancreatic and gallbladder cancer have been published only since 1979. Joinpoint regression was applied to investigate the annual trends in the rates of cancer mortality. The annual mortality rates of gastric and gallbladder cancer decreased throughout the study period. Furthermore, declines in mortality from esophageal and hepatic cancers have been observed since 1998 and 1995, respectively. However, the rates of colorectal and pancreatic cancer mortality have been increasing in the past few years. Nevertheless, the mortality rates of colorectal and pancreatic cancers have increased in males aged 40–59 years during the study period. Moreover, significantly higher risks of gastrointestinal cancer-related deaths have been observed in males as compared with females except for death related to cancer of the gallbladder. The presented data suggest that the Hungarian mortality rates are particularly high. The detection of gastrointestinal cancers at an early stage would significantly improves the outcome of these malignancies.

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Acknowledgments

Mónika Szűcs is supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP-6.1.5/14/1-KONV-2015-0073 ‘National Excellence Program’.

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  1. 1st Department of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Klaudia Farkas

  2. Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, University of Szeged, P.O. Box: 427, Szeged, H-6701, Hungary

    Mónika Szűcs & Tibor András Nyári

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Farkas, K., Szűcs, M. & Nyári, T.A. Trends in Gastrointestinal Cancer Mortality Rate in Hungary. Pathol. Oncol. Res. 22, 681–688 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12253-016-0052-y

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