Rhoads G G, Glober G A, Stemmerman G N
School of Public Health, University of Hawaii 96822.
Hawaii Med J. 1991 Sep;50(9):326-33.
Because of its multiracial character, Hawaii presents a unique opportunity to carry out demographic investigations of the etiology of certain common cancers. Tumors with substantially different incidence rates among the major ethnic groups in the Islands, or between a given immigrant group and its country of origin, are of particular interest for such studies. Among the cancer sites meeting these criteria, nasopharynx, stomach, prostate, large bowel, liver, female breast, uterine corpus, ovary, bladder, and thyroid are particularly prominent.
由于夏威夷具有多种族特征，它为开展某些常见癌症病因的人口统计学调查提供了独特机会。在该群岛的主要种族群体之间，或者在特定移民群体与其原籍国之间发病率存在显著差异的肿瘤，对于此类研究尤为重要。在符合这些标准的癌症部位中，鼻咽癌、胃癌、前列腺癌、大肠癌、肝癌、女性乳腺癌、子宫体癌、卵巢癌、膀胱癌和甲状腺癌尤为突出。
