title: Cancer incidence differences between ethnic groups in Surinam.
abstract: Because of central registration, all new cases of malignant disease in Surinam confirmed by pathology could be studied over a twelve-year period (1979-1990). Patients were arranged by sex, age, racial or ethnic group, and primary localisation of the malignancy. A predominance of female patients could largely be ascribed to very frequent carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Apart from this, striking differences in proportional rate of general malignancy and of the four most frequent types were found among the various ethnic groups. Genetic differences in susceptibility to malignant disease are presumed to contribute substantially to the variations observed.
authors.affiliation: Pathologisch Laboratorium, Academisch Ziekenhuis, Anton de Kom Universiteit, Paramaribo, Surinam.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bijlsma
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D013532:Suriname / Q000453:epidemiology