Cancer mortality in ethnic South Asian migrants in England and Wales (1993-2003): patterns in the overall population and in first and subsequent generations.
BACKGROUND
Cancer mortality has been examined among ethnic South Asian migrants in England and Wales, but not by generation of migration.


METHODS
Using South Asian mortality records, identified by a name-recognition algorithm, and census information, age-standardised rates among South Asians, and South Asian vs non-South Asian rate ratios, were calculated.


CONCLUSIONS
All-cancer rates in ethnic South Asians were half of those in non-South Asians in first-generation (all-cancer-standardised mortality ratio (SMR) in males 0.51 and in females 0.56) and subsequent-generation South Asians (SMR in males 0.43 and in females 0.36). The higher mortality in first-generation South Asians for liver (both sexes), oral cavity and gallbladder cancer (females), particularly marked among Bangladeshis, was reduced in subsequent generations.
Mangtani
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Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Punam.Mangtani@LSHTM.ac.uk
Maringe
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Rachet
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Coleman
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dos Santos Silva
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D000465:Algorithms; D001210:Asia, Southeastern / Q000208:ethnology; D044466:Asian People; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000208:ethnology; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D014852:Wales / Q000453:epidemiology