ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2011
Cancer incidence among Canadian immigrants, 1980-1998: results from a national cohort study.
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- Preventive Cancer Screening Among Resettled Refugee Women from Muslim-Majority Countries: A Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2020Pooled it
- Illness perceptions and explanatory models of viral hepatitis B & C among immigrants and refugees: a narrative systematic review.BMC public health · 2015Pooled it
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- Inequalities in relative cancer survival by race, immigration status, income, and education for 22 cancer sites in Canada, a cohort study.International journal of cancer · 2025Article
- Small-area spatio-temporal analysis of cancer risk to support effective and equitable cancer prevention.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Global burden of primary liver cancer in 2020 and predictions to 2040.Journal of hepatology · 2022Article
- The mean attributable health care costs associated with hepatitis B virus in Ontario, Canada: A matched cohort study.Canadian liver journal · 2022Article
- Cancer Incidence in Migrants in Australia: Patterns of Three Infection-Related Cancers.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2022Article
- The influence of ethnicity on disease outcome in patients with chronic hepatitis B infection.Journal of medical virology · 2019Article
- Higher risk of gastric cancer among immigrants to Ontario: a population-based matched cohort study with over 2 million individuals.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2018Article
- Incidence of breast and colorectal cancer among immigrants in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study from 2004-2014.BMC cancer · 2018Article
- Barriers to cervical cancer screening faced by immigrants: a registry-based study of 1.4 million women in Norway.European journal of public health · 2017Article
- Risk of colorectal cancer among immigrants to Ontario, Canada.BMC gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Cancer and the healthy immigrant effect: a statistical analysis of cancer diagnosis using a linked Census-cancer registry administrative database.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Imported Disease Screening Prior to Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplantation for Oncohematological Malignancies.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016Article
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Abstract
Canadian immigrants have lower overall cancer risk than the Canadian-born population. Less is known about risks for immigrant subgroups and site-specific cancers. Linked administrative data sets were used to compare cancer incidence between subgroups of immigrants to Canada and the general Canadian population. The study involved 128,962 refugees and 241,010 non-refugees. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were calculated for all-site and site-specific cancers by immigration categories and regions of birth. Relative to the general Canadian population, incidence of all-site cancer was lower among immigrants overall, by sex and refugee status (non-refugee SIRs 0.25: men, 0.24: women; refugee SIRs 0.31: both). Significantly higher SIRs resulted for liver, nasopharyngeal and cervical cancers, including liver cancer among South-East Asian and North-East Asian immigrants, and nasopharyngeal cancer among North-East Asian non-refugees. Hypothesized explanations for variation in cancer incidence include earlier viral infection in the country of origin.
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