Cancer Among Canadian Indians

Cancer incidence among Canadian kidney transplant recipients.

A number of studies have observed increased cancer incidence rates among individuals who have received renal transplants. Generally, however, these studies have been limited by relatively small sample sizes, short follow-up intervals or focused on only one cancer site. We conducted a nationwide population-based study of 11,155 patients who underwent kidney transplantation between 1981 and 1998....

Colorectal Cancer Screening Behaviors among American Indians in the Midwest

Colorectal cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer among American Indians and is also the second leading cause of cancer death. We used a community-based participatory approach to conduct a mixed methods study to examine colorectal cancer screening behaviors. Here we report on the screening behaviors of our focus group participants (n=153). There were signifi cant gender diff erences in the ...

Commentary: Cancer incidence among Asian Indians in India and abroad.

Cancer Causes Control 1999;10:77–83. 43 Kolonel LN, Nomura AM, Hirohata T, Hankin JH, Hinds MW. Association of diet and place of birth with stomach cancer incidence in Hawaii Japanese and Caucasians. Am J Clin Nutr 1981;34:2478–85. 44 Tsugane S, Sasazuki S, Kobayashi M, Sasaki S. Salt and salted food intake and subsequent risk of gastric cancer among middle-aged Japanese men and women. Br J Can...

Infective Hepatitis among Indians

The cases on which this paper is based were 258 in number. All the caees were treated in hospital during; the period 15th May, 1943, to 30th April, 1945. Only those cases have been considered which were admitted from the local Indian units. They were all Indian males. Combatants were admitted in much larger proportions (84 per cent) than non-combatants (16 per cent), though they were all living...

Normal Intrapleural Pressures among Indians