TY - JOUR
T1 - Cancer incidence among spouses of patients with colorectal cancer
AU - Mellemgaard, Anders
AU - Jensen, Ole Møller
AU - Lynge, Elsebeth
PY - 1989/8/15
Y1 - 1989/8/15
N2 - The risk of colorectal cancer was examined among spouses of approximately 10,000 colorectal cancer patients. A total of 8,095 spouses were identified, and cancer cases in this cohort were sought in the Danish Cancer Registry. No excess risk was found for colorectal cancer as such. The data were also anal/zed by subsite of the large bowel for the index cases and for the spouses, respectively. The estimated relative risks were in general close to unity, the only exception being the risk of right‐sided colon cancer among husbands of index cases with left‐sided colon cancer, RR = 2.17 (p < 0.05). The absence of excess risk was noted regardless of the duration of marriage. The risk of other cancers with a presumed etiology similar to that of colorectal cancer (cancer of the uterine corpus, breast, prostate and biliary tract) was also close to expected values.
AB - The risk of colorectal cancer was examined among spouses of approximately 10,000 colorectal cancer patients. A total of 8,095 spouses were identified, and cancer cases in this cohort were sought in the Danish Cancer Registry. No excess risk was found for colorectal cancer as such. The data were also anal/zed by subsite of the large bowel for the index cases and for the spouses, respectively. The estimated relative risks were in general close to unity, the only exception being the risk of right‐sided colon cancer among husbands of index cases with left‐sided colon cancer, RR = 2.17 (p < 0.05). The absence of excess risk was noted regardless of the duration of marriage. The risk of other cancers with a presumed etiology similar to that of colorectal cancer (cancer of the uterine corpus, breast, prostate and biliary tract) was also close to expected values.
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U2 - 10.1002/ijc.2910440206
DO - 10.1002/ijc.2910440206
M3 - Article
C2 - 2759728
AN - SCOPUS:0024417016
SN - 0020-7136
VL - 44
SP - 225
EP - 228
JO - International Journal of Cancer
JF - International Journal of Cancer
IS - 2
ER -