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. 2016 Aug 12;7:12157. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12157

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Incidence patterns are normalized for unit incidence at age 30 years and presented in semi-log scale. A typical incidence pattern is characterized by exponential increase at early ages, subsequent slowdown and plateau/decreased incidence in late life. The doubling rates of cancer incidence (linear rates of incidence growth in semi-log scale) and the ages of incidence slowdown/plateau are the same for cancer incidences in all three countries. Standard cancer incidences (cases per 100,000 people) are presented in ‘Growth of cancer incidence with age for different countries' in Supplementary Information. (a) Pancreatic cancer in women. (b) Colon cancer in men. (c) Ovarian cancer. (d) Bladder adenocarcinoma in men. (e) Breast cancer in women. (f) Prostate cancer.