Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006 36(5):334-335; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyl034
© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
International Comparisons of Cumulative Risk of Lung Cancer, from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII
Hiroshi Sano and
Tomomi Marugame
Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center
Cumulative risk of lung cancer (ICD-10: C33–34) incidence up 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 lung cancer incidence among 22 registries (and ethnic groups) are shown in Fig. 1. Males showed higher lung cancer risk compared with females in all 22 registries. In males, USA–black in SEER (Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results) showed the highest lung cancer risk, while Chinese in Los Angeles (USA) and Sweden showed lower risk than the other registries. In females, USA–black and white in SEER, and Denmark showed higher lung cancer risk than the others, while France, Korean and Chinese in LA, Japan and Korea showed low risk. In East Asian males, Chinese in Singapore showed the highest lung cancer risk and East Asian immigrants in USA had lower risk than native population living in their homeland. In East Asian females, lung cancer risk was seemingly similar between immigrants in USA and native population. In USA, blacks and whites had higher lung cancer risk than East Asian immigrants in both males and females. In Europe, UK had the lowest lung cancer risk next to Sweden in males, while Denmark was far the highest and UK was high in females.
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Figure 1. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of lung 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. LA: Los Angeles, 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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