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Years of life lost
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Years Of Life Lost (Cancer) 
Years of life lost is a method to refine the traditional measure of mortality rates by providing a weighting for deaths at different ages. It represents the number of years not lived by an individual from birth to age 75. This indicator places more weight on causes of early death than those causes of death at older ages.
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