Abstract
Materials and methods Data was obtained from the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) for deaths by LC from 1998–2004. The annual mortality mean rate (AMMR) was established for each of the 32 Mexican Republic States. The world standard population was used. AMMR was standardized by age (SRA) through direct method, and the standard error was calculated by Poisson approximation with a 95% reliability interval. Excess of mortality risk was calculated from standardized mortality ratios (SMR) of SRA for each state, using the national rate as reference, with 95% and 99% reliability intervals. SPSS, version 10.0 for Windows, was used.
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Lung cancer mortality in MexicoLuz Ma Ruíz-Godoy, Pedro Rizo, Felipe Sánchez, Alvaro Osornio, Claudia García and Abelardo Meneses García*5
Lung cancer (LC) is the cause of the highest cancer-related rate in the world for both sexes (1,179,000 deaths)
annual mortality mean rate (AMMR) was standardized by age (SRA) through direct method, and the standard error was calculated by Poisson approximation with a 95% reliability interval
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Luz Ma Ruíz-Godoy, Pedro Rizo, Felipe Sánchez, Alvaro Osornio, Claudia García and Abelardo Meneses García*5. Address: 1Basic Research, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, México DF, 2Archivo Clínico, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, México DF, 3Dirección General de Epidemiología, México DF, 4Programa Universitario del Medio Ambiente, UNAM, México DF and 5Dirección Médica, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, México DF. Published: 5 February 2007 BMC Cancer 2007, 7(Suppl 1):A29 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-7-S1-A29. islen2t4iilathbleohr>erAelso.s-lores Gallardo-Rincon, Luis A Herrera, Myrna Candelaria, Adolfo Fuentes-Alburo Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all
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