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LEUKEMIA RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 261-269Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2126(01)00126-6
Keywords
Hodgkin's disease; Asians; epidemiology; incidence; SEER
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- NCI NIH HHS [N01-CN-65107, R29 CA50381] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [050M-8701/8-S1522] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R29CA050381] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Hodgkin's disease (HD) has been reported to be rare in Asians. Data sparseness has hindered studies exploring the relative contributions of environment and heredity to HD etiology, and individual risk factors have never been studied in an Asian population. With the most recent, uniformly collected population-based data from the US and Asia, we compared HD incidence rates in Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and Asian Indians in the US and in Asia. HD incidence rates were quite low in all Asian subgroups, but approximately double in US Asians as in native Asians. In both, rates were lower for Japanese and Chinese than for Filipinos and Asian Indians. A modest young-adult rate peak occurred for most US Asian groups, but not for any population in Asia. In data from a population-based case control study of HD in San Francisco area women, young-adult Asian cases, like young-adult cases of other racial/ethnic groups, had childhood social environments indicative of less early contact with children. Given environmental and lifestyle differences between the US and Asia, the consistently low rates of HD in Asians suggest genetic resistance to disease development, possibly associated with HLA type. International and inter-ethnic differences, and risk factor patterns in case control data, implicate environmental influences in the etiology of HD. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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