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Prevalence of undiagnosed cancer of the large bowel found at autopsy in different races
Author(s) -
Berg John W.,
Downing Arlene,
Lukes Robert J.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197005)25:5<1076::aid-cncr2820250511>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , colorectal cancer , autopsy , race (biology) , population , demography , environmental health , botany , sociology , biology
The prevalence of undiagnosed colon and rectal cancer found in 16,105 autopsies is tabulated by age, sex, and race. The prevalence was higher in women than in men, lower in Negroes than in Caucasians or Orientals, and lowest of all in Mexicans. In this population, 18 percent of the symptomatic cancers were undiagnosed premortem. Grossly recognizable latent cancer was no more frequent than undiagnosed symptomatic cancer.