1. Cancer in Hong Kong: some epidemiological observations.
- Author
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Ho JH, Chan CL, Lau WH, Au GK, and Koo LC
- Subjects
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Child, Child, Preschool, Diet, Female, Hong Kong, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Laryngeal Neoplasms epidemiology, Life Style, Liver Neoplasms epidemiology, Lung Neoplasms epidemiology, Male, Middle Aged, Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms epidemiology, Neoplasms mortality, Smoking, Neoplasms epidemiology
- Abstract
A good coverage by the Hong Kong Cancer Registry of cases of the common cancers diagnosed in Hong Kong during 1974-78 is indicated by an excess of cases over deaths registered, which is according to expectation from survival prospects. The trends during 1961-79 showed a rapid increase in mortality from lung cancer in both sexes, a moderate rise in liver cancer in males, and small increases in esophageal cancer in males and colon cancer in females. Cervical cancer was the only neoplasm that showed a decreasing trend, although this was small in proportion. Some epidemiological observations on cancer arising in the lung, liver, larynx, and nasopharynx are presented.
- Published
- 1982