From: Relationships between cancer pattern, country income and geographical region in Asia
 | Age-standardized rate (per 100,000 person-years) | |||||||||||
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Region | Eastern Asia | South-Eastern Asia | South-Central Asia | Western Asia | ||||||||
Cancer site | Inc | Mor | MIR | Inc | Mor | MIR | Inc | Mor | MIR | Inc | Mor | MIR |
Both sexes | ||||||||||||
 All cancers | 186.0 | 117.7 | 0.63 | 138.2 | 94.8 | 0.69 | 100.1 | 69.3 | 0.69 | 168.2 | 103.0 | 0.61 |
Male | ||||||||||||
 All cancers | 225.4 | 159.3 | 0.71 | 147.6 | 114.1 | 0.77 | 98.4 | 74.8 | 0.76 | 192.8 | 129.3 | 0.67 |
 Lung | 50.4 | 44.8 | 0.89 | 29.6 | 26.6 | 0.90 | 11.9 | 10.7 | 0.90 | 37.6 | 34.0 | 0.90 |
 Stomach | 35.4 | 24.0 | 0.68 | 8.2 | 7.3 | 0.89 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 0.92 | 11.8 | 10.2 | 0.86 |
Liver | 31.9 | 29.9 | 0.94 | 22.2 | 21.4 | 0.96 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 0.97 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 0.98 |
 Colorectum | 22.4 | 10.2 | 0.46 | 15.2 | 9.7 | 0.64 | 7.0 | 5.1 | 0.73 | 17.6 | 10.0 | 0.57 |
 Oesophagus | 16.9 | 14.1 | 0.83 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 0.92 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 0.92 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 0.93 |
Female | ||||||||||||
 All cancers | 151.9 | 80.2 | 0.53 | 132.6 | 79.5 | 0.60 | 103.3 | 64.7 | 0.63 | 150.2 | 81.3 | 0.54 |
 Breast | 27.0 | 6.1 | 0.23 | 34.8 | 14.1 | 0.41 | 28.2 | 13.5 | 0.48 | 42.8 | 15.1 | 0.35 |
 Lung | 19.2 | 16.2 | 0.84 | 10.5 | 9.4 | 0.90 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 0.91 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 0.87 |
 Cervix | 7.9 | 3.3 | 0.42 | 16.3 | 7.9 | 0.48 | 19.3 | 10.9 | 0.56 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 0.43 |
 Colorectum | 14.6 | 6.8 | 0.47 | 10.2 | 6.4 | 0.63 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 0.73 | 12.4 | 7.1 | 0.57 |
 Stomach | 13.8 | 9.8 | 0.71 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 0.85 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 0.93 | 7.3 | 6.2 | 0.85 |