Cancer mortality in Europe, 1990–1994, and an overview of trends from 1955 to 1994

Mortality data, abstracted from the WHO database, are presented in tabular form for 26 cancer sites or groups of sites, plus total cancer mortality, in 35 European countries during the period 1990–1994. Trends in mortality are also given in graphical form for 24 major countries over the period 1955–1994. In most western European countries total cancer mortality was—for the first time—moderately downwards in the early 1990s. Such favourable...