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Secular and age distribution of scrotal cancer in connecticut and a review of United States literature
Author(s) -
Roush George C.,
Schymura Maria J.,
Flannery John T.
Publication year - 1984
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(19840801)54:3<596::aid-cncr2820540335>3.0.co;2-j
Subject(s) - medicine , testicular cancer , cancer , demography , distribution (mathematics) , mathematical analysis , mathematics , sociology
In contrast with the expectations of the authors and with reports suggesting a decline in risk for scrotal cancer, Connecticut Tumor Registry data neither showed detectable decrease in risk over the 45‐year‐period for all 95 scrotal malignancies nor for the 71 epithelial cancers. The age distribution of scrotal cancer in Connecticut was similar to that of the more common tumors thought to be caused by exogenous agents. The risk increased up to age 75 in a geometric fashion, followed by a plateau and decline in risk among the very elderly. United States literature on scrotal cancer points to a change in occupational risks; this literature and recent occupational data from Connecticut suggest that metalworking may have been associated with a high proportion of cases in recent decades. Evidence is lacking that scrotal cancer and its most recent marker of carcinogenic risk have been fully eliminated.