Table 1.

Summary of the number, crude rank, ASR, and MIR of lip and oral cancer by region.

	New Cases			Deaths			MIR
Region	Number	CR	ASR	Number	CR	ASR
Africa	13,324	1.0	1.7	9066	0.7	1.2	0.71
Asia	220,810	4.9	4.2	124,900	2.8	2.4	0.57
Europe	57,737	8.0	4.3	21,834	3.0	1.6	0.38
Latin America and the Caribbean	18,525	2.9	2.6	7050	1.1	1.0	0.38
North America	25,354	7.1	4.2	4424	1.2	0.7	0.17
Oceania	4163	10.2	7.5	895	2.2	1.5	0.22