Socioeconomic, biological, and behavioral determinants of gastric cancer incidence and mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean: a sex-stratified ecological study with projections to 2050.
BACKGROUND Gastric cancer imposes a heavy, geographically uneven burden across Latin America and the Caribbean. We quantified the associations of socioeconomic, biological, and behavioral factors with gastric cancer incidence and mortality across the region, examined sex-specific patterns and the projected burden to 20...