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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SINONASAL CANCER IN DENMARK, 1943–1982
Author(s) -
OLSEN JØRGEN H.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica series a :pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0108-0164
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1987.tb00027_95a.x
Subject(s) - paranasal sinuses , epidemiology , medicine , incidence (geometry) , etiology , nasal cavity , cancer , respiratory tract , physiology , demography , pathology , respiratory system , surgery , physics , optics , sociology
Long‐term trends in the incidence of cancer of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses were studied on the basis of notifications of cancer cases in Denmark over 40 years. A total of 1436 cases of sinonasal cancer were reported in 1943–1982, giving steady annual incidences of 0.8 per 1 males and 0.5 per 1 females. These contrast with the simultaneous increases in risk for cancers of the middle and lower respiratory tract, and incidate that cigarette smoking does not play any significant role in the aetiology of sinonasal cancer. Since this tumour type has many occupational aetiologies, the stable time trends observed further indicate that all the major risk factors have been present in work places in a relatively unchanged form for more than half a century. A curious time‐dependent distribution of cases according to subsite of the tumour, however, leaves open for possibility that some of the environmental carcinogens may have changed.