Cancer among Arab Americans in the metropolitan Detroit area

Kulwicki, Anahid; Schwartz, Kendra L.; Weiss, Linda K.; Fakhouri, Haifa; Sakr, Wael; Gregory, Kau; Severson, Richard K.

Cancer among Arab Americans in the metropolitan Detroit area

Kulwicki, Anahid; Schwartz, Kendra L.; Weiss, Linda K.; Fakhouri, Haifa; Sakr, Wael; Gregory, Kau; Severson, Richard K.

URL: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/fmhs_pubs/1/

Date: 2017-10-20

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Abstract:

Detroit is home to one of the largest populations of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East, yet little is known about the cancer distribution in this ethnic group. The authors of this study created an Arab/Chaldean surname list and matched it with the Detroit SEER Registry to identify cancer cases of probable Arabic descent. We then determined proportional incidence ratios (PIR) for specific cancer sites among metropolitan Detroit Arab Americans as compared to non-Arab Whites, and contrasted the results with Middle Eastern data. Arab/Chaldean men had greater proportions of leukemia (29%), multiple myeloma (46%), liver (64%), kidney (33%), and urinary bladder (26%) cancers. Arab/Chaldean women had greater proportions of leukemia (23%), thyroid (57%), and brain (35%) cancers as compared with non-Arab White men and women. The cancers with significantly increased PIRs in the Detroit Arab/Chaldean population also are frequently diagnosed in Middle Eastern countries

Citation:

Schwartz, K. L., Kulwicki, A., Weiss, L. K., Fakhouri, H., Sakr, W., Kau, G., & Severson, R. K. (2004). Cancer among Arab Americans in the metropolitan Detroit area.