Radovanović Z, Gledović Z, Janković S
Neoplasma. 1984;31(2):225-9.
The question of whether the cancer death risk is higher in Balkan nephropathy (BN) foci has been approached by a comparison of 25 BN endemic municipalities with the same number of the group matched ones. It came out that the total cancer mortality was considerably higher, and mortality of nonurinary cancer slightly higher in BN endemic municipalities. The absence of a significant difference for the non-urinary cancer sites the authors explain by the fact that in municipalities designated as endemic only a part of the population lived in actual BN foci. They re-evaluated data published for Bulgarian BN endemic foci and concluded that, apart of a higher total cancer mortality, there was a significantly higher (although unrecognized) risk of nonurinary deaths in BN endemic settlements.
通过将25个巴尔干肾病（BN）流行地区的城市与相同数量的匹配组城市进行比较，探讨了BN流行地区癌症死亡风险是否更高的问题。结果表明，BN流行地区的癌症总死亡率显著更高，非泌尿生殖系统癌症的死亡率略高。作者解释说，非泌尿生殖系统癌症部位没有显著差异，原因是在被指定为流行地区的城市中，只有一部分人口生活在实际的BN病灶地区。他们重新评估了保加利亚BN流行病灶地区公布的数据，并得出结论，除了总癌症死亡率较高外，BN流行地区居民的非泌尿生殖系统死亡风险也显著更高（尽管未被认识到）。
