McCredie M, Coates M, Grulich A
New South Wales Cancer Council in the Cancer Epidemiology Research Unit, Australia.
Cancer Causes Control. 1994 Sep;5(5):414-21. doi: 10.1007/BF01694755.
The incidence of cancer in migrants to New South Wales (NSW) from Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey has been compared with that in the Australian-born population using data from the NSW Central Cancer Registry for 1972-91. Age-standardized incidence rates showed overall cancer incidence to be less common in migrants from each Middle Eastern country than in the Australian-born. There was a clear pattern of generally low rates for cancers of the mouth and pharynx, esophagus, colon and rectum, lung (men only), ovary, prostate and testis, and melanoma. Cancers which tended to be more common in migrants were nasopharynx, stomach (women only), liver (men only), gallbladder (chiefly in women), bladder (men only), and thyroid. Breast cancer did not show a uniform pattern among migrant groups, rates being high in the Egyptian-born but low in Lebanese-born women. The overall low incidence of cancers related to tobacco and alcohol, and to a 'high fat, low fiber' diet, emphasizes the potential role of preventable lifestyle factors in the burden of cancer in Australia.
利用新南威尔士州中央癌症登记处1972年至1991年的数据，对来自塞浦路斯、埃及、伊朗、伊拉克、以色列、黎巴嫩、叙利亚和土耳其的新南威尔士州移民的癌症发病率与澳大利亚出生人口的发病率进行了比较。年龄标准化发病率显示，来自每个中东国家的移民中总体癌症发病率低于澳大利亚出生人口。口腔和咽部癌、食道癌、结肠直肠癌、肺癌（仅男性）、卵巢癌、前列腺癌和睾丸癌以及黑色素瘤的发病率普遍较低，呈现出明显的模式。在移民中往往更常见的癌症是鼻咽癌、胃癌（仅女性）、肝癌（仅男性）、胆囊癌（主要在女性中）、膀胱癌（仅男性）和甲状腺癌。乳腺癌在移民群体中没有呈现出统一的模式，埃及出生的女性发病率较高，而黎巴嫩出生的女性发病率较低。与烟草、酒精以及“高脂肪、低纤维”饮食相关的癌症总体发病率较低，这凸显了可预防的生活方式因素在澳大利亚癌症负担中的潜在作用。
