Cervix and breast cancer incidence in immigrant Caribbean women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11020189
AutoresRachel G Fruchter (SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University), Kamran Nayeri, J Remy, J C Remy, C Wright (0000-0001-8624-9605), Joseph Feldman, J G Feldman, J G Boyce, John Boyce, William S Burnett (0000-0002-9067-0635)
Año1990
Volumen80
Número6
Páginas722-724
Fecha de publicación1990-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.80.6.722
PMID2343960
OpenAlexW1985643049
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas8

Cervix and breast cancer incidence in 1978-82 was computed for immigrant and United States-born Black women in Brooklyn, New York. Compared to the national SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) rates, US-born and Haitian women had high rates of invasive cervical cancer, while English-speaking Caribbean immigrants had an average rate. However, while US-born women had an average rate of carcinoma in situ of the cervix, both immigrant groups had low rates. Both immigrant groups had low rates of breast cancer, whereas US-born Black women had an average rate

Breast cancer · Cancer · Cervical cancer · Cervix · Geography · Gynecology · Immigration · Incidence (geometry) · Obstetrics · Demography · Epidemiology · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma