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Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden
We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to analyse the risk of nervous system tumours, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in age groups 0–4 and 0–19 years among Swedish-born offspring of immigrants. The study included 850 000 individuals with an immigrant background, including...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11986773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600227 |
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description | We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to analyse the risk of nervous system tumours, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in age groups 0–4 and 0–19 years among Swedish-born offspring of immigrants. The study included 850 000 individuals with an immigrant background, including European, Asian and American parents. We calculated standardised incidence ratios for the above three malignancies using Swedish offspring as a reference. Subjects were grouped by region or by selected countries of parental origin. No group differed significantly from Swedes in the occurrence of nervous system neoplasm or leukaemia. Offspring of Yugoslav fathers (SIR 2.27) and Turkish parents were at increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The highest risk was noted for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among young offspring (0–4 years) of two Turkish parents (6.87). The currently available limited data on rates for childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in these countries do not explain the risk in the offspring of immigrants. Yugoslavs and Turks are recent immigrant groups to Sweden, and their offspring have been subject to much population mixing, perhaps leading to recurring infections and immunological stimulation, which may contribute to their excess of lymphomas. British Journal of Cancer (2002) 86, 1414–1418. DOI: 10.1038/sj/bjc/6600227 www.bjcancer.com © 2002 Cancer Research UK |
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spelling | pubmed-23753792009-09-10 Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden Hemminki, K Li, X Br J Cancer Epidemiology We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to analyse the risk of nervous system tumours, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in age groups 0–4 and 0–19 years among Swedish-born offspring of immigrants. The study included 850 000 individuals with an immigrant background, including European, Asian and American parents. We calculated standardised incidence ratios for the above three malignancies using Swedish offspring as a reference. Subjects were grouped by region or by selected countries of parental origin. No group differed significantly from Swedes in the occurrence of nervous system neoplasm or leukaemia. Offspring of Yugoslav fathers (SIR 2.27) and Turkish parents were at increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The highest risk was noted for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among young offspring (0–4 years) of two Turkish parents (6.87). The currently available limited data on rates for childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in these countries do not explain the risk in the offspring of immigrants. Yugoslavs and Turks are recent immigrant groups to Sweden, and their offspring have been subject to much population mixing, perhaps leading to recurring infections and immunological stimulation, which may contribute to their excess of lymphomas. British Journal of Cancer (2002) 86, 1414–1418. DOI: 10.1038/sj/bjc/6600227 www.bjcancer.com © 2002 Cancer Research UK Nature Publishing Group 2002-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2375379/ /pubmed/11986773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600227 Text en Copyright © 2002 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Epidemiology Hemminki, K Li, X Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden |
title | Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden |
title_full | Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden |
title_fullStr | Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden |
title_full_unstemmed | Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden |
title_short | Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden |
title_sort | cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to sweden |
topic | Epidemiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2375379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11986773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600227 |
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