title: Cancer mortality in ethnic South Asian migrants in England and Wales (1993-2003): patterns in the overall population and in first and subsequent generations.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. Punam.Mangtani@LSHTM.ac.uk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mangtani
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maringe
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rachet
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: dos Santos Silva
mesh_terms: 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