https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/31/7/31_JE20200416/_article

PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8187612/

Highlights

• Trends in cancer incidence and mortality in Japan were examined using most recent representative data.
• The age-standardized rate of all-cancer incidence started to decrease significantly in males and level off in females in 2010, after a long-term intermittent increase.
• The convergence of an increase in all-cancer incidence was mainly due to the slowing down of prostate and breast cancers in males and females, respectively.
• The ASR of all-cancer mortality continued to decrease, the main contributing cancer sites of which were still stomach, liver, and male lung.

Selected result