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✨ cancer: who mortatlity database most common cancer
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change to total deaths from age-standardize
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veronikasamborska1994 committed Sep 30, 2024
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variables:
cause:
title: Leading cancer types causing death in << sex.lower() >>
description_short: Most common cause of cancer deaths in << sex.lower() >> per 100,000 people.
description_short: Most common cause of cancer deaths in << sex.lower() >>.
description_processing: |-
The most common cancer type as a cause of death was identified using the age-standardized death rate per 100,000 people. The age-standardized death rate allows for fair comparisons across different populations by accounting for age distribution differences.
The most common cancer type as a cause of death was identified using the total number of deaths from every type of cancer.
unit: ''
presentation:
grapher_config:
note: |-
All deaths in a country may not have been registered with a [cause of death](#dod:underlying-cause-of-death).

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