Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006 36(1):66-68; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyi221
© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
International Comparisons of Cumulative Risk of All-Site Cancer, from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII
Kota Katanoda and
Dongmei Qiu
Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center
Cumulative risk of all-site cancer (ICD-10: C00–C96) incidence to age 69 years was calculated with data from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII. Cumulative risk is defined as the probability that an individual will develop the disease in question during a certain age span, in the absence of other competing causes of death. Twenty-two registries (and ethnic groups) were selected, for which background information is shown in Table 1. Comparisons of the cumulative risk of all-site cancer incidence among these populations are shown in Fig. 1. The USA-black in SEER (Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results) group showed the highest cancer risk in males, while Denmark had the highest risk in females. Chinese immigrants living in Los Angeles (LA), USA showed the lowest cancer risk in both males and females. Japanese immigrants in the USA (i.e. LA and Hawaii), as compared with people living in Japan (i.e. Miyagi, Nagasaki and Osaka), showed lower cancer risk in males and similar or higher cancer risk in females. In both males and females, Korean immigrants living in LA, USA showed lower cancer risk than people in Seoul. Chinese in Singapore and Hawaii, USA showed higher cancer risk than those in Shanghai and LA, USA. In females there was a tendency that Western populations showed higher cancer risk than East Asian populations.
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Table 1. Background information of 22 cancer registries selected from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII (1)
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Figure 1. Comparisons of cumulative cancer incidence risk among 22 selected cancer registries.
Note: Data were downloaded from IARC CANCERMondial Statistical Information System (http://www-dep.iarc.fr/). Data of number of deaths and population for Vol. VIII were extracted from CI5I-VIII_September_2005.ZIP and tabulated by the authors of this article. The data of Korea-Seoul, Italy-Venetian, and The Netherlands were ‘original’ version, and the data of the other registries were ‘updated’ version. Responsibility for this presentation and interpretation lies with the authors of this article. LA: Los Angeles, SEER: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results.
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1 Parkin DM, Whelan SL, Ferlay J, Teppo L, Thomas DB (eds). Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII. IARC Scientific Publications No. 155. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2002.
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