• 作者： 陳拱北；吳新英；葉金川；鄭玉娟
• 作者服務機構： 國立臺灣大學醫學院公共?生研究所
• 中文摘要： 癌症發生的地理分布對病因的假設與探討有很大的幫助。作者根據過去九年間可以得到的死因資料加以整理分類，並求鄉鎮市區別年?調整死亡率，並以彩色地圖及統計表發表，以便研究者能一 目了然地明白癌症死亡的地理分布，並容易找出癌症死亡率高的聚集地區。此外由此亦可?出種族別、地區別、縣巿別、鄉村一都市別癌症死亡率之高低，這些資料對影響癌症死亡之可能因素的(risk factors)了解，有頗大幫助。
• 英文摘要： Geographic patterns of cancer occurrence are useful in developing and testing etiological hypothesis. These could provide critical leads to environmental and genetic determinants of various cancers. However, few studies were concerned with epidemiology of cancer mortality (or morbidity) in Taiwan. NO previous studies ever known described the geographic patterns of cancer mortality in Taiwan area. This report provided a detailed epidemiological study of cancer mortality in Taiwan at township level. Cancer deaths and age adjusted death rates by sex and by cancer sites were compiled for each township (361 in number) for 9 year period, 1968-1976. Before 1968, no complete compiled data of certificates can be used. The maps presented in color may help to visualize geographic variation at the township level and one may identify clusters of townships with excess cancer deaths which in turn may provide etiological clues. The tables also help in evaluating the cancer mortality of various ethnic and urban-rural groups. Both maps and tables may help to realize the patterns of mortality with suspected risks such as ethnic, occupational exposure, etc). The geographic and demographic patterns of mortality for selected cancer sites are summarized as below.
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