PMID: 2483915Sep 1, 1989Paper

[Mortality from malignant tumors in the industrial region of the province of Milan, 1980-1987].

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
C MacchiR Mongiat

Abstract

For the period 1980-87 mortality data relating to residents of a densely populated area in the province of Milan was collected and elaborated. The area is heavily industrialised and had a particularly high immigration level in the 1960's and 70's. Malignant neoplasms represented the cause of death in 35.59% of male cases and 26.59% of female, with greater incidence in the former of tumours in respiratory organs and in the latter in the digestive tract. High mortality rates were noted for cancer of the lung in males over 35 years and for neoplasms of the digestive tract in those over 75 years but in females high mortality from breast cancer prevailed between 25-74 years and cancer of the stomach and intestine in those over 75 years. S.P.M.R. were elaborated with proportional mortality analysis showing an overall tendency to an increased death rate from malignant tumours that was statically significant in females, particularly at an advanced age. Increasing trends in tumours of the stomach and of the lympho-hematopoietic tissues were evident in females, in urinary organs in males, notably in elderly men, and in intestinal cancer in both sexes. The trend in mortality from breast cancer was however on the decline. As a whole, morta...Continue Reading

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