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Age-standardized mortalities from colon cancer in USA, Japan and Korea. The Age-standardized mortalities from colon cancer in the USA show decreases since the mid 1980's in both sexes. In Japan, there have also been decreases in mortality from colon cancer since the mid 1990's. However, rates are continuing to increase in South Korea (Base line data from Ref. 42).
