Epidemiologia e prevenzione
Volume 18, Issue 59, 1994, Pages 125-132

Incidence of cancer in migrants: data of the Lombardy tumor registry [Incidenza del cancro nei migranti: i dati del registro tumori Lombardia.] (Article)

Russo A.* , Crosignani P. , Berrino F. , Viganò C.
  • a Divisione de Epidemiologia, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
  • b Divisione de Epidemiologia, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
  • c Divisione de Epidemiologia, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy
  • d Divisione de Epidemiologia, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milano, Italy

Abstract

Epidemiological studies of migrants have played an important role in evaluating the environmental and genetic components of cancer aetiology. Italian regions were grouped into five areas: North-West, North-East, Central, South and Lombardia. Incidences of cancer in migrants from South and North-East of Italy, in the province of Varese, have been compared with the incidence of Lombardia-born population, using data collected from the Cancer Registry of Lombardia for 12 years (1976-1987). Incidence comparisons were made using the Standardized Incidence Ratio (SIR). Subjects emigrated from the North-East show SIR higher than the Lombardia-born for lung and oesophageal cancer (smoking and alcohol related cancers). SIR for lip and nasopharyngeal cancers were higher in South-born. Cancer of breast, stomach and colon have low SIRs in subjects migrated from the South and, to a even lower extent, in subjects migrated from the North-East. Several others cancers tended, in general, to have lower rates in migrants from South than in native-born in Lombardia.

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Sex Factors male sex difference female comparative study cohort analysis Italy Transients and Migrants Registries Article neoplasm Cohort Studies register Neoplasms human Humans migration statistics
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ISSN: 11209763
Cited by: 2
Original Language: Italian