title: Secular trend and age-period-cohort analysis of prostate cancer mortality in Taiwan.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We evaluated the secular mortality trend of prostate cancer in Taiwan from 1964 through 1994.
  
  
  METHODS
  Analyses were based on vital statistics. Relative risks associated with each of the age, period and cohort effects on secular mortality were estimated from a log-linear Poisson model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Age adjusted mortality rates increased more than 2-fold during the last 30 years in Taiwan. Age-period-cohort analysis showed that the age effect was the strongest.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Factors related to aging are the main reason for the increase in prostate cancer mortality in Taiwan during the least 3 decades.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Institutes of Epidemiology and Clinical Medicine, Colleges of Public Health and Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012306:Risk; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology