Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006 36(7):474-475; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyl070
© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
International Comparisons of Cumulative Risk of Uterine 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 cancer incidence of uterine cervix (ICD-10: C53) and uterine body (ICD-10: C54) 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 incidence risk of cancer of uterine cervix among 22 registries (and ethnic groups) are shown in Fig. 1. Koreans in Seoul showed the highest risk among all the registries. Korean immigrants in Los Angeles showed the highest risk in the USA registries. Denmark showed a relatively higher risk than other European registries. Japanese and Korean immigrants in USA showed lower risk than their counterparts in homelands. In USA, black showed higher risk than white.
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Figure 1. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of cancer of uterine cervix among 22 selected cancer registries.
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The comparisons of the cumulative incidence risk of cancer of
uterine body are shown in
Fig. 2. There is a general tendency
that people living in East Asia show lower risk than black and
white people in USA and Europeans. Japanese and Chinese immigrants
in Hawaii showed higher risk than their counterparts in homelands.
In USA, white showed higher risk than black, and Japanese immigrants
showed as high risk as white.
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Figure 2. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of cancer of uterine body 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. LA: Los Angeles; SEER: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results.
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Comparisons between
Figs 1 and
2 reveal that people living in
East Asia tend to show higher risk of cancer of uterine cervix
than of uterine body, whereas people in USA and Europe tend
to show the opposite pattern.
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References
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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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