Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology 2006 36(8):533-534; doi:10.1093/jjco/hyl085
© 2006 Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research
International Comparisons of Cumulative Risk of Skin Cancer, from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vol. VIII
Dongmei Qiu and
Sachiko Tanaka
Statistics and Cancer Control Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center
Cumulative risk of cancer incidence of melanoma of skin (ICD-10: C43) and other cancer of skin (ICD-10: C44) 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 incidence of skin melanoma among 22 registries (and ethnic groups) are shown in Fig. 1. SEER (Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results) white in USA and European registries showed higher cancer risk than East Asia in both sexes. The cancer risk in SEER white in USA is far higher than in SEER black and East Asian immigrants in USA. Though several East Asian immigrant populations in USA showed higher cancer risk than those lived in their homeland (Japanese male and Korean female in Los Angeles, USA, and Japanese female in Hawaii), this tendency was not consistent in other populations.
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Figure 1. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of melanoma of skin among 22 selected cancer registries.
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The comparisons of the cumulative risk of incidence of skin
cancer other than melanoma among 22 registries (and ethnic groups)
are shown in
Fig. 2. The cumulative incidence risks in Europe
tend to be higher than in East Asia and USA. In contrast to
the pattern of melanoma of skin, SEER white in USA showed lower
cancer risk of skin cancer other than melanoma than Europe and
showed similar cancer risk to SEER black in USA. There is a
tendency that cancer risk in Venetian Italy and Denmark is higher
than in other European countries. In England, West Midlands
showed higher cancer risk than those in South Thames in both
sexes. In East Asia, the highest cancer risk was shown in Singapore
Chinese.
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Figure 2. Comparisons of cumulative incidence risk of skin cancer other than melanoma among 22 selected cancer registries.
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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, Venetian Italy 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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Reference
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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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