The Epidemiology of colorectal cancer in Guangzhou, China: A cross-sectional and age-period-cohort study.

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In terms of mortality trends (as illustrated in Fig 3C - 3D and Table 4 ), the overall colorectal cancer mortality rate in Guangzhou exhibited a gradual increase from 2011 to 2020; however, this trend did not reach statistical significance (AAPC = 0.63%, 95% CI: -0.89% to 2.17%, P = 0.37).

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