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Is Cancer Mortality Increasing or Decreasing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

George Wolff
George Wolff
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Berlin
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We have heard much in recent times of the decrease of tuberculosis and of the increase in mortality from cancer. I propose on the basis of data from some great cities and other areas of the German-speaking world to ascertain whether, if attention is paid to age distribution, cancer really presents so striking a contrast with other causes of mortality. With a view to solving the problem let us enquire whether the undoubted absolute increase may not be a mere function of the ageing of the population, a feature common to all civilised countries. Most weight will be placed upon the statistical data derived from cities because of the greater reliability of the diagnoses in hospitals, and because, as a rule, the death certificate is filled up by the practitioner who actually attended the patient.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , August 1935 , pp. 327 - 338
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1935

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