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Early Detection of Cancer in Asia (Including Australia)

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Asia contains over half of the world’s population and most countries are lower middle income in economic development, with a small number of high-income and very low-income countries. Asia also has the largest cancer burden of any region in the world with over one-third of all new cancer cases and nearly half of all cancer deaths in 2008, with a mortality to incidence ratio which indicates that about two-thirds of patients diagnosed with cancer will die of the disease. The five commonest cancers in men are lung, stomach, liver, esophagus, and colorectum and in women breast, cervix, lung, stomach, and colorectum. Leukemia and lip and oral cavity cancers in both men and women and prostate cancer in men make up the 10 commonest cancers in Asia. Primary and/or secondary prevention (early detection) interventions are possible for all except leukemia, but there are economic and cultural barriers to the rapid implementation of known effective early detection cancer control strategies. The current status and future prospects for early detection of cancer in Asia are explored in this chapter.

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  1. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Victoria Australia, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

    Robert Burton MD, PhD

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology & Preventative Medicine Monash Medical School Building, The Alfred Hospital, Level 6 The Alfred Centre (Alfred Hospital), 99 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic, 3004, Australia

    Robert Burton MD, PhD

  3. Department of Surgery, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Cheng-Har Yip FRCS

  4. Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

    Marilys Corbex PhD

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Burton, R., Yip, CH., Corbex, M. (2013). Early Detection of Cancer in Asia (Including Australia). In: Miller, A. (eds) Epidemiologic Studies in Cancer Prevention and Screening. Statistics for Biology and Health, vol 79. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5586-8_24

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