Is nasopharyngeal carcinoma more common in Hakkas than in Fukienese? A comparison within the Taiwanese population
Resource
ONCOLOGY REPORTS v.2 pp.431-4
Journal
ONCOLOGY REPORTS
Journal Volume
v.2
Pages
431-4
Date Issued
1995
Date
1995
Author(s)
WANG, YU-WEN
HUANG, SHU-CHEN
CHEN, CHIEN-JEN
LUI, LOUIS, TAK
LEUNG, HENRY, W-C
TING, LAI-LEI
Abstract
This study is to ascertain whether Hakkas have a higher incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) than Fukienese as being proposed. A total of 949 NPC patients during 1990-1993 were serially recruited. Their ethnicity and residential area since childhood were compared to the census data in 1956. The 95% confidence interval of odds ratios for Hakkas to Fukienese in various counties were found to overlap within a range from 0.85 to 1.15 without showing statistically significant difference from unity . This result indicates that there is no extra ethnic risk between the two groups in Taiwan.#1394#
Subjects
NPC
Hakkas
Fukienese
incidence
ethnicity
Type
journal article