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Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006 36(10):677-678; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyl130
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© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research

Cancer Statistics Digest

International Comparisons of Cumulative Risk of Leukaemia, from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII

Yuka Hirabayashi and Hiroshi Sano

Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center

Cumulative risk of leukaemia (ICD-10: C91–C95) incidence to age 69 was calculated with data from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII (1). 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. The comparisons of the cumulative risk of leukaemia incidence among 22 registries (and ethnic groups) are shown in Fig. 1. Males showed higher cumulative incidence risk of leukaemia compared with females in all registries. In males, white (SEER) and Bas-Rhin (France) showed remarkably high cancer risk while Korean in Los Angeles showed low cancer risk. In East Asian people living in their homeland, Nagasaki (Japan) showed the highest cancer risk while Chinese in Hawaii was showed the highest cancer risk among East Asian immigrants in the United States. In Western regions, Bas-Rhin (France) showed the highest cancer risk while West Midlands (England, UK) showed low risk. In females, USA-white (SEER) showed the highest cumulative risk while Chinese in Los Angeles showed the lowest cancer risk. In East Asia, Nagasaki (Japan) showed the highest cancer risk as in the case with men. In Western regions, Bas-Rhin, Isere (France) and Denmark showed the highest cancer risk while The Netherlands showed the lowest cancer risk.


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  		Figure 1. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of Leukaemia among 22 selected cancer registries.

 
Note: Data were downloaded from IARC CANCERMondial Statistical Information System (http://www-dep.iarc.fr/). Data of number of incidence 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. SEER: surveillance epidemiology and end results.


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1 Parkin DM, Whelan SL, Ferlay J, Teppo L, Thomas DB, editors. 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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