A Study on Specificity of Cancer Incidence in Daegu-Kyungbuk Area

일부지역의 암발생 특성에 관한 조사연구(2)

Cerebrovascular disease have been replaced by neoplasm as first cause of death on 1980's. So, many epidemiological studies on cancer have been reported. However, most of them were performed on beses of biopy data or of histological examination. We had reported that valuable results could be obtained from surgical data for cancer patients, previously. In this paper, 5,103 surgically treated cancer patients in Daegu-Kyungbuk area during 1985-1989 were analyzed in terms of sex, age and organ. Mean age on male cancer patients was increased, but in the case of female, the trend of age distribution is inverse to other reports. It is considered as regional specificity to cancer incidence and it is due to higher frequency of breast and uterine cervical cancer than other areas. Especially, in the case of breast cancer, the mean age of patients was 30's and be considered as most dangerous cancer to famale.