Relationship of Ethnicity, Age and Gender to Incidence of Bladder and Nasopharyngeal Cancers in Kuching, Sarawak.
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Relationship of Ethnicity, Age and Gender to Incidence of Bladder and Nasopharyngeal Cancers in Kuching, Sarawak. |
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Author :
Edmund Sim Ui Hang, Tiong Thung Sing, Selva Kumar Subramaniam, Ong Teng Aik and Teh Guan Chou |
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Abstract:
Records of cancer disease in Sarawak are semi-regular, with limited information available in the National Cancer Registry of 2003, and a more detailed record in the Sarawak Cancer Registry Report of 2005. These documents largely contain information on incidence and basic descriptive statistical account of age-standardised incidence rate for each type of cancer. Efforts to link incidence records of cancers in Sarawak with susceptibility factors such as ethnicity, gender and age are lacking and published reports of such studies are rare. In this paper, we present findings from the latest incidence analysis of bladder carcinoma (bladder cancer) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (nose and throat cancer) in Kuching, and discuss probable linkage of incidence with ethnicity, gender and age. Our data provides useful baseline information for studies targeted at correlating non-environmental factors with bladder and nasopharyngeal cancers in the Kuching population of Sarawak.
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| DOI: https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2010-CCC1-02 |
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How to cite:
Edmund Sim Ui Hang et al. (2010). Relationship of Ethnicity, Age and Gender to Incidence of Bladder and Nasopharyngeal Cancers in Kuching, Sarawak. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXVII (88): 25-38 |
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