Relationships between cancer pattern, country income and geographical region in Asia

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Table 2 Comparison of age-standardised incidence, mortality and MIR of all (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) and top five cancers in Asia by sub-regions

	Age-standardized rate (per 100,000 person-years)
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

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