An additional younger-age peak for cancer of the nasopharynx

✍ Scribed by V. Balakrishnan

• Book ID: 102276414
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 485 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910150414

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The age distribution of 666 masopharyngeal cancer patients attending the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, during 1941–72 was found to show an additional younger‐age peak in the age‐group 13–22. The peak was found in both sexes, in different communities, at two time periods and in histologically proved cases. One hundred cases of nasopharyngeal lymphosarcoma showed no deviation from a uniform age distribution. Pooled incidence data for 48 population groups showed the peak in the age‐group 15–19 for males and in the age‐group 10–14 for females. No such peak was observed for malignancies of the nose, sinuses, etc. (ICD NO:160).