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Table 1 Trends in mortality from intrahepatic and extrahepatic biliary tract cancers, WHO Databank (EAPC = estimated annual percent change in age-adjusted mortality rates)

From: Worldwide trends in mortality from biliary tract malignancies

  

Extrahepatic tumors

Intrahepatic tumors

Region

Country

 

EAPC

 

EAPC

  

Years

Male

Female

Years

Male

Female

Americas

Canada

1970–1997

-1.9

-2.8

1979–1997

7.9

8.8

 

USA

1970–1996

-2.5

-2.8

1979–1997

7.3

8.5

Oceania

Australia

1970–1995

-1.9

-1.9

1979–1995

12.3

12.0

 

New Zealand

1970–1996

-2.7

-3.1

1979–1996

4.4

3.4

Western Europe

Austria

1970–1998

-1.5

-2.7

1980–1998

6.0

5.2

 

Belgium

1970–1994

-1.5

-2.5

   
 

Former FDR

1970–1990

-0.9

-1.8

   
 

France

1970–1996

1.2

-0.1

1983–1996

10.0

5.2

 

Germany

1990–1997

-1.2

-3.2

1991–1997

13.2

2.5

 

Greece

1970–1997

3.2

2.2

1979–1997

1.8

2.4

 

Ireland

1970–1996

-0.5

-2.5

1979–1996

10.9

8.5

 

Italy

1970–1995

2.9

2.3

1986–1995

4.2

5.9

 

Netherlands

1970–1995

-2.3

-3.9

1979–1995

3.5

0.2

 

Portugal

1984–1998

1.7

-0.1

1984–1996

10.4

10.3

 

Spain

1970–1994

2.9

3.0

1982–1995

18.3

12.7

 

UK

1970–1996

-3.7

-3.1

1979–1997

8.8

9.6

Central Europe

Czech

1986–1993

0.3

-2.2

1986–1993

-8.5

-5.6

 

Former Czech

1970–1991

1.4

0.6

   
 

Former GDR

1976–1990

-0.5

-1.9

   
 

Hungary

1970–1995

1.1

-0.6

1979–1995

1.5

2.1

 

Slovenia

1985–1996

-1.3

-2.5

1988–1996

22.1

10.3

Northern Europe

Iceland

1971–1995

-2.1

-2.3

   
 

Norway

1970–1995

0.1

-0.9

1989–1995

-3.0

-2.5

 

Sweden

1970–1995

0.6

-0.5

1987–1996

9.1

3.5

Asia / Middle East

Israel

1970–1991

-3.9

-4.4

1987–1996

-3.1

2.9

 

Japan

1970–1994

3.2

2.4

1979–1994

7.4

0.9

 

Singapore

1970–1996

1.7

1.0

1979–1998

6.1

6.0