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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-9
pubmed:abstractText
Incidence data pertaining to more than 250,000 cancer cases diagnosed during the years 1972-1989 among residents of urban Shanghai, China, were analyzed to determine the relative importance of the various malignancies and to discover changes over time. In the most recent 3-year period, lung cancer was the most frequent cancer among men (57.0 per 100,000 person-years, age-adjusted world standard), followed by cancers of the stomach (50.1), liver (29.6), esophagus (13.3), colon (11.2) and rectum (9.4). Among women, breast cancer leads (25.1), followed by cancers of the stomach (23.2), lung (18.8), liver (10.9), colon (10.2) and rectum (7.3). The most impressive increases in incidence rates from 1972-74 to 1987-89 were observed for cancers of the gallbladder (119% and 101% among men and women, respectively), colon (85% and 78%), and brain and other nervous system (71% and 60%). In addition, increases of 20-50% occurred for cancers of the pancreas, male lung, female breast, corpus uteri, kidney, and for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Rates declined notably for cancers of the esophagus (-54% and -53%), cervix uteri (-86%), and to a lesser extent (10-20%) cancers of the male stomach and liver. These observed trends can be explained only partly by improvements in cancer diagnosis and completeness of the cancer registry, and most likely reflect changes in the prevalence of risk factors in this population.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
12
pubmed:volume
53
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
764-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Cancer incidence trends in urban Shanghai, 1972-1989.
pubmed:affiliation
Shanghai Cancer Institute, Department of Epidemiology, People's Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article