Patterns of cancer in first generation immigrants from the Arab League and other countries.

摘要: Arabic immigrants are a relatively new group of and one the fastest growing populations in United States. Yet, information about their disease patterns is limited because not recognized minority population statistics. We tested whether population-based cancer registry data were useful to describe first generation immigrants, compared with non-immigrants as well other immigrants. Information on invasive cases only primary known age was extracted from Surveillance, Epidemiology, End Results (SEER) public use (1973-2004) software. Immigrants divided by place birth; Arabic: born Arab League countries, immigrants: countries than States or League, whereas US-born used reference population. birth frequently absent for non-deceased cases, therefore deceased cases. Age- gender-standardized proportional ratios (SPR) calculated 24 aggregated sites. Significantly high low SPRs observed following sites: liver (3.15), gallbladder & biliary (1.87), thyroid (1.74), stomach (1.54), leukemia (1.41), lymphoma (1.36), pancreas ovary (1.29), brain nervous system (1.23), lung (0.80), prostate (0.72), oral cavity pharynx (0.64), esophagus (0.39), skin melanoma (0.33). These similar immigrants; however, Arabic-specific, thus may deserve further investigation specific environmental genetic exposures among