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. 2025 May 4;3(2):e100148.
doi: 10.1136/egastro-2024-100148. eCollection 2025.

Burden of digestive system malignancies and its impact on life expectancy in China, 2004-2021

Ting Hu  1 , Shiyue Wang  1 , Yingying Wang  1 , Xinlong Wang  1 , Lin Shang  2 , Kaijuan Wang  1   3   4
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Burden of digestive system malignancies and its impact on life expectancy in China, 2004-2021

Ting Hu et al. eGastroenterology. .
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Keywords: Colorectal Neoplasms; Digestive System Neoplasms; Esophageal Neoplasms; Life Expectancy; Liver Neoplasms; Neoplasms; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Stomach Neoplasms.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Trends of age-standardised mortality rates (ASMR) (/100 000) of digestive system tumours by sex, urban and rural areas, and regions from 2004 to 2021. (a) Male, (b) Female, (c) City, (d) Rural, (e) East, (f) Middle and (g) West. ASMRs: calculated based on the population size of China’s seventh population census and the age composition ratio of the seventh population census.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Trends in the probability of premature mortality of five digestive system malignant tumours in China by gender, urban and rural areas, and regions from 2004 to 2021. (a) Male, (b) Female, (c) City, (d) Rural, (e) East, (f) Middle and (g) West. DSMTs, digestive system malignant tumours.
Figure 3
Figure 3. The levels and trends of life expectancy (years) in different genders and regions from 2004 to 2021 in China. (a) Male, (b) Female, (c) City, (d) Rural, (e) East, (f) Middle and (g) West. CELE, cause-eliminated life expectancy.
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