A great deal of research information has been generated regarding cancer incidence rates and underlyingrisk factors. Since incidence:mortality ratios are generally less than 2:1 and often approach equivalence thereclearly ...

For collaboration across the Asian Pacific to function effectively in this day and age, email contact is absolutely essential. The list below is for the present moment in time and will be continuously upgraded at regular ...

China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan constitute North-East Asia. For reasons of largely shared ethnicity andculture, with various degress of mixed Chinese and Altaic elements, as well as geographical contiguity, they canbe ...

Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines constitute peninsular and islandSouth-East Asia. For reasons of largely shared ethnicity, with Chinese elements added to the basic Austromalaysianpopulations, ...

The Pacific Ocean contains approximately 25,000 islands, stretching from Papua New Guinea to EasterIsland, populated by mixtures of Melanesians, Micronesians and Polynesians, as well as migrant groups fromAsia and Europe. ...

South-West Asia, stretching from Lebanon and Syria in the north, through to Yemen in the south and Iraq inthe east, is the home of more than 250 million people. Cancer is already a major problem and the markedlyincreasing ...

The North-Western and Central region of Asia stretches from Turkey through Armenia, Georgia andAzerbaijan, to Iran and Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan and Afghanistan.These countries in the ...

Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, with their total population of more than 1,500million, make up the subcontinent of South Asia. Despite massive diversity across the region, there are sufficientsimilarities ...

The countries of mainland South-East Asia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam, share along history of interactions and many cultural similarities, as well as geographical contiguity. They thereforecan be usefully ...

Data from 44 cancer registries in 15 countries in Asia were published in Cancer Incidence in Five ContinentsVolume IX (CI5 IX). These and findings from 3 other registries were here analysed to provide an overview onthe ...

Cancer and related lifestyle diseases are on the increase across Asia and already account for over half thedisease-associated mortality in the vast majority of the included countries. An understanding of the epidemiologyis ...