Oral and pharyngeal cancer in South Asians and non-South Asians in relation to socioeconomic deprivation in South East England.
From UK Thames Cancer Registry data, after controlling for socioeconomic deprivation of area of residence, South Asian males showed a higher relative risk of oral (1.36; 95% CI: 1.11, 1.67), but not of pharyngeal cancer than non-South Asian males, whereas South Asian females had much higher risks of these cancers (3.67; 95% CI: 2.97, 4.53 and 2.06; 95% CI: 1.44, 2.93), respectively, than non-South Asians.
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Health Services Research, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, 256 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8LD, UK. d.moles@eastman.ucl.ac.uk
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D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D044466:Asian People; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D012306:Risk; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012907:Smoking; D012923:Social Class