Burden of cervical cancer in the 27 member states of the European Union: estimates for 2004

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In a recent publication in this journal, estimates for 2004 of the burden of cervical cancer incidence and mortality were provided for 25 member states belonging to European Union (EU) in that year and for three other countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) [1]. On the 1st of January 2007, Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU as well. Therefore, we computed the rates of incidence and mortality from cervix uteri cancer using the same methods as described before. The latest mortality data for 2002 were extracted from the World Health Organization mortality database (http://www.who.int/whosis/mort). For Bulgaria, national incidence rates were available for 1998, whereas, for Romania, national incidence was computed by modeling from the mortality data using representative age-specific incidence/mortality ratios [2]. Deaths from uterine cancer not otherwise specified were reallocated as explained in the previous report [1]. Number of deaths and incident cases was obtained by multiplying the age-specific rates with the corresponding population size of 2004 derived from World Population Prospects published by the United Nations Population Division (http://esa.un.org/unpp/).

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