title: [Significant correlations of mortality due to stomach and colonic cancer in Rosario with other neoplastic sites].
abstract: The age standardized mortality rates, by sex, for cancer all sites and some diagnostic sites were calculated in the 22 Areas of the city of Rosario during the period 1977-81. The rates of the different cancer sites, by Areas, were correlated with stomach and colon cancers, by sex, applying the Kendall's tau, a non-parametric method of correlation. While the mortality rates for cancer all sites and for stomach cancer in males were higher than in females in almost all of the Areas, for colon cancer they were almost similar. Colon cancer rates in both sexes had negative correlations with infant mortality rates, and in females had positive correlations with breast cancer, and negative correlations with cervix and uterus cancer. Stomach mortality rates had negative correlations with those of colon in both sexes, and positive correlations with total cancer and infant mortality rates. The distribution of the mortality rates of some cancer sites and their correlations suggest that some risk factors and shared in their causal chain.
authors.affiliation: División Inmunología, Dpto. de Ciencias Fisiológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Poletto
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Morini
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*
vernacular_title: Asociaciones relevantes de la mortalidad por cáncer de estómago y colon en Rosario con otras localizaciones neoplásicas.