Lung cancer mortality in Mexico, 1990-2016: age-period-cohort effect

• Main Authors: Rosalba Rojas-Martínez (Author), Consuelo Escamilla-Núñez (Author), Rafael Meza (Author), Ruth Argelia Vázquez-Salas (Author), Emiliano Zárate-Rojas (Author), Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective. To update information on the mortality trend due to lung cancer in Mexico from 1990 to 2016. Materials and methods. Age-adjusted rates were obtained using the direct method. The percentage of annual change in the mortality of lung cancer was obtained through joinpoint analysis at the nati...