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  • Title: Cancer incidence in New Zealand born residents of New South Wales.
    Author: McCredie M, Coates MS, Ford JM.
    Journal: N Z Med J; 1990 Feb 28; 103(884):61-3. PubMed ID: 2308724.
    Abstract:
    Cancer incidence in New Zealand born residents of New South Wales (NSW) has been compared with that in the Australian born population using data from the NSW Central Cancer Registry for the period 1972-84. Indirectly age-standardised incidence ratios (SIR) showed that New Zealand born women living in NSW had higher rates of cancer at all sites combined (SIR = 112) and a significant excess of colorectal cancer (SIR = 126). Although overall cancer rates were similar in men born in New Zealand to those in the Australian born men, the New Zealanders had a significantly higher risk of colorectal (SIR = 124) and testicular cancer (SIR = 227), cancers which are more common in New Zealand than in Australia. While the SIRs for lung cancer in men and melanoma of skin in both sexes were low, no cancer was significantly less common in New Zealand born residents of NSW than in the Australian born.
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