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2875786

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-11-7
pubmed:abstractText
This is a descriptive epidemiologic report based on over 3000 incident testicular cancer cases occurring among residents of the US and Puerto Rico, as reported to the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute for the years 1973 through 1982. White men had significantly higher incidence rates than their New Mexico Hispanic, black, and Puerto Rican Hispanic counterparts with weighted risk ratios of 1.36, 4.62, and 4.80, respectively. Ethnic differences in incidence were least evident at the extremes of age. Although the distribution of histologic subtypes did not differ across ethnic strata, morphologic expression was related to age at diagnosis. There was a predominance of right-sided tumor involvement in each ethnic group in childhood (less than 15 years of age), but not in the oldest age categories or among tumors presenting in cryptorchid testes. Never married men appeared to be at greater risk of developing nonseminoma testicular cancer than their married counterparts. Analysis of ethnic secular trends, using data from comparable geographic areas, showed a consistent increase in incidence among young men for all three ethnic groups. The contrast between the rate differences and the homogeneity of descriptive parameters across ethnic strata suggest the impact of quantitative rather than qualitative differences in environmental etiology.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0008-543X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1785-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Incidence and descriptive features of testicular cancer among United States whites, blacks, and Hispanics, 1973-1982.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article