Schwartz Kendra L, Kulwicki Anahid, Weiss Linda K, Fakhouri Haifa, Sakr Wael, Kau Gregory, Severson Richard K
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Department of Family Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Ethn Dis. 2004 Winter;14(1):141-6.
Detroit is home to one of the largest populations of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East, yet little is known about the cancer distribution in this ethnic group. The authors of this study created an Arab/Chaldean surname list and matched it with the Detroit SEER Registry to identify cancer cases of probable Arabic descent. We then determined proportional incidence ratios (PIR) for specific cancer sites among metropolitan Detroit Arab Americans as compared to non-Arab Whites, and contrasted the results with Middle Eastern data. Arab/Chaldean men had greater proportions of leukemia (29%), multiple myeloma (46%), liver (64%), kidney (33%), and urinary bladder (26%) cancers. Arab/Chaldean women had greater proportions of leukemia (23%), thyroid (57%), and brain (35%) cancers as compared with non-Arab White men and women. The cancers with significantly increased PIRs in the Detroit Arab/Chaldean population also are frequently diagnosed in Middle Eastern countries.
底特律是中东以外阿拉伯裔美国人聚居最多的城市之一，但人们对这个族群的癌症分布情况却知之甚少。该研究的作者创建了一份阿拉伯/迦勒底姓氏列表，并将其与底特律监测、流行病学和最终结果（SEER）登记处的数据进行匹配，以确定可能具有阿拉伯血统的癌症病例。然后，我们确定了底特律大都市地区阿拉伯裔美国人中特定癌症部位的比例发病率（PIR），并与非阿拉伯裔白人进行比较，同时将结果与中东地区的数据进行对比。阿拉伯/迦勒底男性患白血病（29%）、多发性骨髓瘤（46%）、肝癌（64%）、肾癌（33%）和膀胱癌（26%）的比例更高。与非阿拉伯裔白人男性和女性相比，阿拉伯/迦勒底女性患白血病（23%）、甲状腺癌（57%）和脑癌（35%）的比例更高。在底特律阿拉伯/迦勒底人群中PIR显著升高的癌症，在中东国家也经常被诊断出来。
