{"doi":"10.21149/10635","title":"Evaluation of Mexico’s low cancer mortality using two national death registries","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: To compare cancer mortality rates in Mexico from two national death registries that independently code and attribute cause of death. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We compared 5-year age-standardized total cancer and sitespecific cancer mortality rates (2010-2014) from Mexico's official death registry with a death registry from a disease surveillance system. We obtained age-adjusted mortality rates and 95% confidence intervals using the direct method and World Population Prospects 2010 as a standard. RESULTS: Cancer mortality estimates for Mexico were minimally affected by the use of two distinct death certificate-coding procedures. Cancer mortality was 73.3 for Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía and 72.7 for System for Epidemiologic Death Statistics per 100 000 women. The corresponding estimates for men were 68.3 and 67.8. CONCLUSIONS: Mexico's low cancer mortality is unlikely to be explained by death certificate processing. Further investigations into the process of death certification and cancer registration should be conducted in Mexico.","journal":"Salud Pública de México","year":2020,"id":84464,"datarank":0.5533799143916178,"base_score":2.302585092994046,"endowment":2.302585092994046,"self_citation_contribution":0.3453877639491069,"citation_network_contribution":0.20799215044251096,"self_endowment_contribution":0.3453877639491069,"citer_contribution":0.20799215044251096,"corpus_percentile":64.69405121064439,"corpus_rank":4565,"citation_count":9,"citer_count":6,"citers_with_citation_signal":3,"citers_with_endowment":3,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.827,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":330882,"name":"Dalia Stern","orcid":"0000-0003-3779-6543","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":433533,"name":"Juan Eugenio Hernández‐Ávila","orcid":"0000-0001-9638-6718","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":433534,"name":"Evangelina Morales-Carmona","orcid":"0000-0002-5186-4605","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":433535,"name":"Alejandro Mohar","orcid":"0000-0002-4730-4787","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":434760,"name":"Martin Lajous","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":433532,"name":"Susana Lozano‐Esparza","orcid":"0000-0003-3446-8130","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":10,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T21:55:38.506333Z","pmid":"32237560","pmcid":"PMC7138337","fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}