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The first mapping of cancer was carried out more than 130 years ago in 1855 in the north of England by Haviland using mortality data. Since then mortality mappings have been carried out in many parts of the world (Heasman and Lipworth 1968; Cameron and McGoogan 1981; Percy et al. 1981). Boyle has already pointed out the problems that are encountered using mortality data. One of the main difficulties is that the cancer from which the patient is suffering may not appear in the death certificate as the underlying cause of death. For this reason statistics may be incomplete. Another great problem is that changes in survival rates over time affect the interpretation of mortality data.
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Kemp, I. (1989). Scottish Cancer Incidence Atlas 1985. In: Boyle, P., Muir, C.S., Grundmann, E. (eds) Cancer Mapping. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 114. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83651-0_14
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