Kirtane J S, Sayed B A, Vaishnav V P
Br J Cancer. 1970 Dec;24(4):670-2. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1970.79.
Analysis of 4500 cases of malignancy encountered in a general hospital in Western India showed that: (1) parts of buccopharynx were the site involved in nearly 25 per cent of these cases. In women the incidence of buccopharyngeal carcinoma was less than in men but was not insignificant (nearly 5 per cent of all malignancies found in women); (2) the cervix was the next frequent site involved accounting for 22 per cent of the total and 80 per cent of the female cancer; (3) cancer of breast was not less common (5 per cent of the total and 12 per cent of the female cancer); (4) oesophageal cancer was far more common than malignant neoplastic lesions of the other parts of the gastrointestinal tract (two-thirds of all cases being found in the oesophagus); (5) carcinoma of skin was not a common lesion.High frequency of the types of cancer mentioned in the first two paragraphs is a "ommon facto" of many such reports from India. On the other hand, reported incidences of the types mentioned in the paragraphs number (3), (4) and (5) show wide variations in different parts of the country.
对印度西部一家综合医院收治的4500例恶性肿瘤病例进行分析发现：（1）颊咽部是近25%此类病例的受累部位。女性颊咽癌的发病率低于男性，但并非微不足道（在女性发现的所有恶性肿瘤中占近5%）；（2）子宫颈是下一个常见的受累部位，占总数的22%，占女性癌症的80%；（3）乳腺癌也较为常见（占总数的5%，占女性癌症的12%）；（4）食管癌远比胃肠道其他部位的恶性肿瘤病变常见（所有病例的三分之二发生在食管）；（5）皮肤癌不是常见病变。前两段提到的癌症类型的高发病率是印度许多此类报告的“共同因素”。另一方面，第（3）、（4）和（5）段提到的癌症类型的报告发病率在该国不同地区差异很大。
