IS NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA MORE COMMON IN HAKKAS THAN IN FUKIENESE - A COMPARISON WITHIN THE TAIWANESE POPULATION

  • Authors:
    • YW WANG
    • SC HUANG
    • CJ CHEN
    • LT LUI
    • HWC LEUNG
    • LL TING
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  • Published online on: May 1, 1995     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2.3.431
  • Pages: 431-434
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Abstract

This study is to ascertain whether Hakkas have a higher incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) than Fukienese as being proposed. A total of 949 NPC patients during 1990-1993 were serially recruited. Their ethnicity and residential area since childhood were compared to the census data in 1956. The 95% confidence interval of odds ratios for Hakkas to Fukienese in various counties were found to overlap within a range from 0.85 to 1.15 without showing statistically significant difference from unity. This result indicates that there is no extra ethnic risk between the two groups in Taiwan.

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May 1995
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WANG Y, HUANG S, CHEN C, LUI L, LEUNG H and TING L: IS NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA MORE COMMON IN HAKKAS THAN IN FUKIENESE - A COMPARISON WITHIN THE TAIWANESE POPULATION. Oncol Rep 2: 431-434, 1995
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WANG, Y., HUANG, S., CHEN, C., LUI, L., LEUNG, H., & TING, L. (1995). IS NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA MORE COMMON IN HAKKAS THAN IN FUKIENESE - A COMPARISON WITHIN THE TAIWANESE POPULATION. Oncology Reports, 2, 431-434. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2.3.431
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WANG, Y., HUANG, S., CHEN, C., LUI, L., LEUNG, H., TING, L."IS NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA MORE COMMON IN HAKKAS THAN IN FUKIENESE - A COMPARISON WITHIN THE TAIWANESE POPULATION". Oncology Reports 2.3 (1995): 431-434.
Chicago
WANG, Y., HUANG, S., CHEN, C., LUI, L., LEUNG, H., TING, L."IS NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA MORE COMMON IN HAKKAS THAN IN FUKIENESE - A COMPARISON WITHIN THE TAIWANESE POPULATION". Oncology Reports 2, no. 3 (1995): 431-434. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.2.3.431