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Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006 36(4):259-260; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyl011
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© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research

Cancer Statistics Digest

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

Yuka Imamura and Hiroshi Sano

Statistics and cancer control division, research center for cancer prevention and screening, national cancer center

Cumulative risk of liver cancer (ICD-10: C22) 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 liver cancer incidence among 22 registries (and ethnic groups) are shown in Fig. 1. The data cover 1993–1997 in all of the regions except Venetian, Italy (1993–1996).


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  		Figure 1. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of liver cancer among 22 selected cancer registries. Note: Data were downloaded from IARC CANCERMondial Statistical Information System (http://www-dep.iarc.fr/). Data of number of death 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.

 
East Asian regions showed higher cumulative incidence risk of liver cancer than Western regions. Males showed higher cancer risk compared with females in all 22 registries except for Japanese in Los Angeles (USA).

In both males and females, Nagasaki (Japan), Osaka (Japan), and Seoul (Korea) have much higher cumulative risk of liver cancer than other registries. Osaka (Japan) for males and Korea for females showed the higher cumulative incidence of liver cancer respectively.

People living in East Asian regions have higher cancer risk than their immigrants in Western regions in both males and females.

By comparison between East Asian immigrants living in the USA, in males Chinese and Korean in Los Angeles (USA) have the highest liver cancer risk while Japanese in Los Angeles and Hawaii (USA) have the lowest. In females, Korean immigrants in Los Angeles (USA) have the highest liver cancer risk among other Asian immigrants.

In Western regions, Venetian (Italy) showed the highest liver cancer risk while the UK and the Netherlands showed the lowest both in males and females.


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1 Parkin DM, Whelan SL, Ferlay J, Teppo L, and 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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