title: Ethnicity and cancer risk in São Paulo, Brazil.
abstract: Data from the São Paulo Cancer Registry (Brazil) for the period 1969-1974 are used to investigate ethnic differentials in cancer risk. Risks for specific cancers were estimated for mulattos and blacks relative to whites, using a case-control approach with other cancers as controls. For both sexes, blacks and mulattos are at higher risk than whites for cancer of the esophagus, stomach, and liver and for myeloma; for prostate cancer in males; and for gall bladder, pancreas, and cervix uteri cancers in females. Blacks and mulattos are at lower risk than whites for cancer of the colon, lung, larynx (males only), bladder, bone, testis, breast, and corpus uteri and for melanoma and leukemia. Except for lung and colon cancers, for which life-style habits are the main risk factors, these ethnic differences are similar to those observed in the United States.
authors.affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bouchardy
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Mirra
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khlat
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Parkin
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Gotlieb
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D044383:Black People; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008019:Life Style / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012042:Registries; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*