title: Epidemiology of cancer of the testis in upstate New York.
abstract: We collected data on the 434 individuals reported with cancer of the testis to the New York State Tumor Registry, 1960-64, from upstate New York. We compared these with the 410 members of a random sample of the upstate population interviewed from 1959 to 1962. A high risk of developing cancer of the testis was associated with professional occupations, native-born parentage, rural residence, and having been married, especially while young. These findings paralleled some other studies, as well as our earlier inquiry. Each of these factors carried a higher risk even when considered in the context of the other traits, and risk increased with an increase in the number of characteristics possessed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004407:Dysgerminoma / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D009373:Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D009518:New York; D009790:Occupations; D012067:Religion; D012306:Risk; D012424:Rural Population; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013724:Teratoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014505:Urban Population