After correcting the cervical and uterine corpus mortality rates in Korea, a significant trend of decreasing mortality was found for cervical cancer, and a trend of rapidly increasing mortality was observed for uterine corpus cancer.
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Further, successful treatment of precancerous lesions (such as intraepithelial neoplasm and carcinoma in situ ) has resulted in a decreasing trend of invasive cervical cancer.
In Hong Kong, there was an overall trend of decrease of uterine cancer mortality since at least 1966 (APC, -4.0%; 95% CI, -4.6 to -3.5).
Mortality rates for women over 70 years of age showed an increasing trend in Asian countries, while rates for women younger than 35 years remained stable or decreased.
Whereas cervical cancer mortality rates have been declining significantly in almost all age groups, a nonsignificant trend of increasing mortality rates was found among women 20 to 34 years of age after 2004 (APC, 6.4%; 95% CI, -2.6 to 16.2).