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The Cancer Transition in Japan since 1951

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Published2002
Citations136
References125

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A Case‐Control Study on Risk Factors for Uterine Endometrial Cancer in Japan

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1999 • 65 citations

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1999 • 63 citations

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1982 • 60 citations

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Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Japan

1995 • 57 citations

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1993 • 55 citations

Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Japan, with Special Attention to Anthropometric Measurements and Reproductive History

1999 • 53 citations

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1986 • 51 citations

Descriptive Epidemiology of Pancreatic Cancer in Japan

1998 • 51 citations

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1993 • 50 citations

Ecologic Study of Lung Cancer Risk Factors in the U.S. and Japan, with Special Reference to Smoking and Diet

1992 • 49 citations

Social and legal factors related to drug abuse in the United States and Japan.

1994 • 49 citations

Alcohol consumption as a major risk factor for the rise in liver cancer mortality rates in Japanese men

1999 • 48 citations

Epidemiology of pancreatic cancer

1998 • 46 citations

Secular trend of the age at menarche of Japanese girls with special regard to the secular acceleration of the age at peak height velocity.

1981 • 45 citations

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1997 • 44 citations

Nutrition and colorectal cancer

1992 • 43 citations

Lung Cancer Risk among Exsmokers

1991 • 43 citations

Increased Risk of Helicobacter pylori Associated with Birth in Wartime and Post-War Japan

1996 • 42 citations

Epidemiology of breast cancer in Japan

1995 • 39 citations

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1983 • 35 citations

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1981 • 34 citations

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1988 • 34 citations

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1990 • 34 citations

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2001 • 33 citations

Changing mortality patterns that led life expectancy in Japan to surpass Sweden’s: 1972–1982

1988 • 32 citations

Epidemiology of breast cancer in Japan

1995 • 32 citations

The Cultural Context of Condom Use in Japan

1981 • 28 citations

Changes in seroepidemiological pattern of Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis A virus over the last 20 years in Japan

1999 • 26 citations

Epidemiological study on relationship between breast cancer mortality and dietary factors.

1994 • 25 citations

Effectiveness of Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer in Women Aged over 50 Years in Japan

1997 • 25 citations

Lung Cancer Risk Comparison among Male Smokers between the “Six-prefecture Cohort” in Japan and the British Physicians' Cohort

1989 • 25 citations

Cancer in Atomic Bomb Survivors

1986 • 22 citations

Changing CHD Mortality and Its Causes in Japan during 1955-1985

1989 • 21 citations

Trends in the Incidence of Female Breast and Cervical Cancers in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, 1959–1987

1996 • 21 citations

The problem of smoking and lung cancer in Japan with special reference to the rising trend in age-specific mortality rate by number of cigarettes smoked daily.

1987 • 19 citations

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1992 • 18 citations

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1985 • 14 citations

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1976 • 13 citations

A Method for Estimating Alcohol-Related Liver Cirrhosis Mortality in Japan

1991 • 13 citations

Accuracy of Cause‐of‐Death Certification in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

1990 • 12 citations

A Secular Trend in Age at Menarche in Sendai City and Its Surroundings

1977 • 11 citations

Trends in National Nutritional Survey of Japan

1992 • 11 citations

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1991 • 10 citations

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1998 • 10 citations

Blood donors to be screened

1989 • 10 citations

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2020 • 9 citations

Hepatitis C virus and hepatocellular carcinoma

1997 • 9 citations

Liver cancer toll high in Japan

1999 • 8 citations

Changing CHD Mortality and Its Causes in Japan during 1955–1985

1989 • 7 citations

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1996 • 6 citations

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1997 • 6 citations

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1994 • 6 citations

Screening for gastric cancer

1996 • 6 citations

Mass Screening for Cancer of the Endometrium in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

1998 • 5 citations

Colorectal Cancer Among Atomic Bomb Survivors

1986 • 5 citations

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1995 • 4 citations

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1995 • 3 citations

HEPATITIS C VIRUS AND HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

1996 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations

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