Comparison of cancer mortality (lung cancer) in five countries: France, Italy, Japan, UK and USA from the WHO Mortality Database (1960-2000)

Lung cancer mortality age-standardized rates (ASRs; using 1985Japanese standard population) are shown for Japan, USA, UK,France, and Italy (Fig 1). For men (Fig. 1, left), all fivecountries experienced a rapid increase in ASRs of lung cancersince the 1960s. During the 1960s and 1970s, ASRs of lung cancerfor men in the UK and USA were much higher compared with