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.
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