Risk of gastric carcinoma will be low in generations born at turn of the 20^th and 21^st centuries in Finland. Modelling NORDCAN data of the age group specific incidence rates of gastric cancer with PLS-regression and with attention to age (‘age effect’) and year of the birth (‘cohort effect’)

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