Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester

Using cancer registry data, we show that although South Asians have lower rates of cancer than the rest of the population, this is changing with age and time. Younger South Asians, particularly children, are at increased risk. While generally cancer rates have fallen over the last decade, they are i...

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Autores principales: Smith, L K, Botha, J L, Benghiat, A, Steward, W P
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2003
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12838302
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600973
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description Using cancer registry data, we show that although South Asians have lower rates of cancer than the rest of the population, this is changing with age and time. Younger South Asians, particularly children, are at increased risk. While generally cancer rates have fallen over the last decade, they are increasing among South Asians.
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spelling pubmed-23942232009-09-10 Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester Smith, L K Botha, J L Benghiat, A Steward, W P Br J Cancer Epidemiology Using cancer registry data, we show that although South Asians have lower rates of cancer than the rest of the population, this is changing with age and time. Younger South Asians, particularly children, are at increased risk. While generally cancer rates have fallen over the last decade, they are increasing among South Asians. Nature Publishing Group 2003-07-07 2003-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2394223/ /pubmed/12838302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600973 Text en Copyright © 2003 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/.
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Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester
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title_full Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester
title_fullStr Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester
title_full_unstemmed Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester
title_short Latest trends in cancer incidence among UK South Asians in Leicester
title_sort latest trends in cancer incidence among uk south asians in leicester
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394223/
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