Cancer mortality in Native Americans in North Carolina.
Author
Horner, Ronnie D.
Abstract
his paper describes age-adjusted mortality from malignant neoplasms for Native Americans in North Carolina for 1968-72 and 1978-82. Sex-specific standardized mortality ratios were calculated from death certificate data, using the cancer mortality experience of White North Carolinians to obtain the number of expected deaths. For most categories and specific sites of cancer, mortality was at or below the expected level, but higher than expected mortality was found for genitourinary cancers in males (SMR=1.62,95%CI=1.15,2.21)forthe1978-82period;withinthis category, there was a higher than expected level of mortality from prostate cancer (SMR = 2.00; 95% CI = 1.36, 2.83) and cancer of the penis and other male genital organs (SMR = 9.09; 95% CI = 1.10, 32.84). Female Native Americans had an elevated mortality from cervical cancer (SMR = 2.27, 95% CI = 1.09, 4.17) for the 1968-72 period only. Originally published American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 80, No. 8, Aug 1990
Date
1990-08
Citation:
APA:
Horner, Ronnie D.. (August 1990).
Cancer mortality in Native Americans in North Carolina..
American Journal of Public Health,
80(8),
940-
944. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3286
MLA:
Horner, Ronnie D..
"Cancer mortality in Native Americans in North Carolina.". American Journal of Public Health.
80:8. (940-944),
August 1990.
September 21, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3286.
Chicago:
Horner, Ronnie D.,
"Cancer mortality in Native Americans in North Carolina.," American Journal of Public Health 80, no.
8 (August 1990),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3286 (accessed
September 21, 2023).
AMA:
Horner, Ronnie D..
Cancer mortality in Native Americans in North Carolina.. American Journal of Public Health.
August 1990;
80(8):
940-944.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3286. Accessed
September 21, 2023.
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Publisher
East Carolina University