Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study
Background There is substantial variation in nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence worldwide. UK incidence data have limited utility because they group these diverse tumours together and do not provide data for individual ethnic groups within Blacks and South Asians. Our objective was to...
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| author | Maile, E Barnes, I Finlayson, A Sayeed, S Ali, R |
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| description | Background There is substantial variation in nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence worldwide. UK incidence data have limited utility because they group these diverse tumours together and do not provide data for individual ethnic groups within Blacks and South Asians. Our objective was to determine the incidence of individual tumour types for seven individual ethnic groups. Methods We used data from the National Cancer Intelligence Network on tumour site, age, sex and deprivation to identify 42,207 tumour cases. Self-reported ethnicity was obtained from the Hospital Episode Statistics database. We used mid-year population estimates from the Office for National Statistics. We analysed tumours by site using Poisson regression to estimate incidence rate ratios comparing non-White ethnicities to Whites after adjustment for sex, age and deprivation. Results Our study showed differences in tumour incidence by ethnicity for gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary tumours and cranial and paraspinal nerve tumours. Relative to Whites; South Asians, Blacks and Chinese have a lower incidence of gliomas (p≺0.01), with respective incidence rate ratios of 0.68 (confidence interval: 0.60–0.77), 0.62 (0.52–0.73) and 0.58 (0.41–0.83). Blacks have a higher incidence of meningioma (p≺0.01) with an incidence rate ratio of 1.29 (1.05–1.59) and there is heterogeneity in meningioma incidence between individual South Asian ethnicities. Blacks have a higher incidence of pituitary tumours relative to Whites (p≺0.01) with an incidence rate ratio of 2.95 (2.37–3.67). There is heterogeneity in pituitary tumour incidence between individual South Asian ethnicities. Conclusions We present incidence data of individual tumour types for seven ethnic groups. Current understanding of the aetiology of these tumours cannot explain our results. These findings suggest avenues for further work. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e0ace789-b8c5-43d3-b6e0-8832f113127a2022-03-27T09:48:59ZNervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological studyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e0ace789-b8c5-43d3-b6e0-8832f113127aEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordPublic Library of Science2016Maile, EBarnes, IFinlayson, ASayeed, SAli, RBackground There is substantial variation in nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence worldwide. UK incidence data have limited utility because they group these diverse tumours together and do not provide data for individual ethnic groups within Blacks and South Asians. Our objective was to determine the incidence of individual tumour types for seven individual ethnic groups. Methods We used data from the National Cancer Intelligence Network on tumour site, age, sex and deprivation to identify 42,207 tumour cases. Self-reported ethnicity was obtained from the Hospital Episode Statistics database. We used mid-year population estimates from the Office for National Statistics. We analysed tumours by site using Poisson regression to estimate incidence rate ratios comparing non-White ethnicities to Whites after adjustment for sex, age and deprivation. Results Our study showed differences in tumour incidence by ethnicity for gliomas, meningiomas, pituitary tumours and cranial and paraspinal nerve tumours. Relative to Whites; South Asians, Blacks and Chinese have a lower incidence of gliomas (p≺0.01), with respective incidence rate ratios of 0.68 (confidence interval: 0.60–0.77), 0.62 (0.52–0.73) and 0.58 (0.41–0.83). Blacks have a higher incidence of meningioma (p≺0.01) with an incidence rate ratio of 1.29 (1.05–1.59) and there is heterogeneity in meningioma incidence between individual South Asian ethnicities. Blacks have a higher incidence of pituitary tumours relative to Whites (p≺0.01) with an incidence rate ratio of 2.95 (2.37–3.67). There is heterogeneity in pituitary tumour incidence between individual South Asian ethnicities. Conclusions We present incidence data of individual tumour types for seven ethnic groups. Current understanding of the aetiology of these tumours cannot explain our results. These findings suggest avenues for further work. |
| spellingShingle | Maile, E Barnes, I Finlayson, A Sayeed, S Ali, R Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study |
| title | Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study |
| title_full | Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study |
| title_fullStr | Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study |
| title_short | Nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in England, 2001–2007: A descriptive epidemiological study |
| title_sort | nervous system and intracranial tumour incidence by ethnicity in england 2001 2007 a descriptive epidemiological study |
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