Cancer pattern among Greenlandic Inuit migrants in Denmark, 1968-1982.
For several cancer sites the incidence among Inuit (Eskimos) in Alaska, Canada and Greenland differs markedly from that in non-Inuit in adjacent areas. This is the first study of Inuit migrants. Among 11,571 Inuit Greenlandic people living in Denmark in the period 1968-1982 we found 69 cases of cancer. Significantly increased risks compared to the Danish population were found for cancer of the rectum (RR = 5.5) in males and for nasopharyngeal cancer (RR = 185.2) and cancer of the cervix uteri (RR = 1.9). The significance of these findings in relation to the role of environmental factors in the aetiology of cancer in Inuit is discussed.
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Danish Cancer Registry, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology under the Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D006116:Greenland / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D004930:Inuit; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology*; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D012307:Risk Factors; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology