A comparison of mortality rates from cancer in white, Indian and coloured adults in 1970 and 1980.
In 1980 lung cancer was associated with the highest mortality rate (MR) in white, Indian and coloured men in the RSA. MRs for this type of cancer were higher in 1980 than in 1970 in all three populations, the increase of 47% in that for coloured men being especially marked. On the other hand, MRs for stomach cancer were lower in 1970 than in 1980 in men from all three populations; however, this type of cancer was still associated with the second highest MR in all groups in 1980. Breast and lung cancer had the highest MRs in white women. In this group there was little change in the MR for breast cancer, but a 27% increase in that for lung cancer over the 10-year period. The three types of cancer associated with the highest MRs in coloured women were cancer of the cervix, breast and stomach. In this group the MR for breast cancer dropped by 22% and that for lung cancer increased by 135% over the 10-year period. In Indian women MRs for cancer of the stomach, breast and cervix ranked highest, a marked increase occurring only in the MR for breast cancer. The MR for lung cancer in Indian women showed a decrease of 71% in 1980 compared with 1970.
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012737:Sex Factors; D013019:South Africa; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D044465:White People