PMID: 2484489Nov 1, 1989Paper

Mortality from malignant tumors of the digestive system in an area of the province of Milan from 1980 to 1987

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
C MacchiP Pellino

Abstract

In a highly populated and industrialised zone of the province of Milan (Health Area 68, Rho) a study was made of mortality due to malignant neoplasms of the digestive organs in the years 1980-1987. The highest mortality percentage in both sexes is caused by stomach cancer, followed by neoplasms of the large bowel, particularly of the colon, malignant neoplasms of the pancreas, primary liver cancer and, in males, of the oesophagus. On the whole mortality from malignant neoplasms of the digestive organs is high in subjects over 75 years and in males a little earlier. Age standardised mortality rates of malignant neoplasms of the stomach and intestine are higher in the area being studied than in Italy. However in males mortality from cancer of the large bowel is lower than in Lombardy, especially in middle-aged subjects. The years 1980-87 have shown a statistically significant increasing trend in males of death from cancer of the colon, rectum and liver. There is an identical trend in females as regards cancer of the colon and liver with the addition of stomach cancer but mortality from cancer of the rectum is stationary. In both sexes mortality from malignant neoplasms of the digestive organs is on the increase but in females thi...Continue Reading

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