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  • Title: Cancer in Connecticut, 1969.
    Author: Christine BW, Flannery JT, Sullivan PD.
    Journal: Conn Health Bull; 1972 Apr; 86(4):103-14. PubMed ID: 12332971.
    Abstract:
    There were a total of 9788 newly-diagnosed cancers in Connecticut residents in 1969, an increase of 475 (5.1%) over 1968. 4620 were in males and 5168 in females. Tumors of the digestive organs were the most frequent, 2680 cases (27.4%). There were 1895 tumors of the genital organs (19.4%), 1421 of the breast (14.5%), and 1285 of the respiratory system (13.1%). The age-adjusted incidence rates for all tumors were 297.3 per 100,000 for males, an increase of 1% over 1968, and 295.1 for females, an increase of 5.4%. Among females the increased numbers of tumors were mostly breast, digestive organs, and lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues. For males cancer of the respiratory system showed the most increase. Female respiratory cancer declined slightly. Breast cancers in females increased 13.9%, the largest yearly increase ever recorded in Connecticut. The older age group (75-79 years) showed the most marked increase, from 311 to 403.1 per 100,000. Of the breast cancers 50.4% were localized, 37.2% had regional spread, and 7.8% remote metastases. In the others the stage was not recorded. Earlier diagnoses are obviously needed. In males cancer of the respiratory system increased from 63.7 per 100,000 in 1968 to 67.3 in 1969. Men over age 85 showed an increase of 156%. The rates in males for tongue and prostate cancer decreased. For children leukemia was the most frequent cancer, for girls 15-19 and boys 19-24 Hodgkin's disease was more frequent. In women aged 20-39 cancer of the cervix was most often diagnosed; after age 40, cancer of the breast; after age, 80, tumors of the large intestine. In men aged 25-34 cancer of the testes predominated; from 40-74, cancers of the lung and bronchus; and over 75, cancer of the prostate. During 1969 there were a total of 5073 cancer deaths, exclusive of nonmelanotic skin and myelofibrosis, 2759 males and 2314 females. 301.% of the deaths among males were digestive organ cancers, 27.8% were respiratory organ disease. Among females 29.4% of deaths were tumors of the digestive organs and 23.7% were breast cancers. Age-adjusted mortality rates were 176.6 per 100,000 for males and 122.4 for females, a slight decrease from 1968.
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