Cancer in Japan from the View Point of Geographical Pathology

Abstract

Upon looking through the list of age-adjusted death rates for cancers in dif ferent sites in Japan, we note that some items are excessively higher than the corresponding rates in Western countries, while some are exceptionally low. This peculiarity can be clearly noticed in the results" of our calculations based on the data directly furnished by the central statistics administrations of 24 countries, and in the results2) of calculations by Stocks' simple method. We will hereunder give some results of statistical studies on cancer in Japan made chiefly by the staff members of our department from the view point of geographical pathology.