Cervix and breast cancer incidence in immigrant Caribbean women

Am J Public Health. 1990 Jun;80(6):722-4. doi: 10.2105/ajph.80.6.722.

Abstract

Cervix and breast cancer incidence in 1978-82 was computed for immigrant and United States-born Black women in Brooklyn, New York. Compared to the national SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) rates, US-born and Haitian women had high rates of invasive cervical cancer, while English-speaking Caribbean immigrants had an average rate. However, while US-born women had an average rate of carcinoma in situ of the cervix, both immigrant groups had low rates. Both immigrant groups had low rates of breast cancer, whereas US-born Black women had an average rate.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Black People
  • Black or African American
  • Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Breast Neoplasms / ethnology*
  • Carcinoma in Situ / epidemiology
  • Carcinoma in Situ / ethnology*
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • Female
  • Haiti / ethnology
  • Humans
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • New York City
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / ethnology*
  • West Indies / ethnology