TY - JOUR
KW - Age Factors
KW - Aged
KW - Epidemiologic Methods
KW - Ethnic Groups
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Japan
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Neoplasms
KW - Sex Factors
KW - Tuberculosis
AU - Tokudome S
AU - Kono S
AU - Ikeda M
AU - Kuratsune M
AU - Kumamaru S
AB - <p>A follow-up study was done on the mortality from 1956 to 1975 among 2,383 Japanese patients with leprosy who were admitted to a leprosarium in Japan. The leprosy was classified into two types: lepromatous and tuberculoid. Irrespective of the type of leprosy or the sex of leprosy patient, mortalities were increased from tuberculosis, pneumonia and bronchitis, nephritis and nephrosis, and from total causes. The suicide rate was high among female patients. Deaths from total malignant neoplasms were higher than expected among patients with lepromatous leprosy for both sexes (49 observed vs. 44.02 expected), whereas they were lower than expected among patients with tuberculoid leprosy (35 observed vs. 36.83 expected); however, the differences were not statistically significant. Mortalities from cancers of the cervix and the esophagus among females with lepromatous leprosy were significantly higher. The risk of lymphoreticular cancers was not increased.</p>
BT - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6943367?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1981 Aug
IS - 2
J2 - J. Natl. Cancer Inst.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A follow-up study was done on the mortality from 1956 to 1975 among 2,383 Japanese patients with leprosy who were admitted to a leprosarium in Japan. The leprosy was classified into two types: lepromatous and tuberculoid. Irrespective of the type of leprosy or the sex of leprosy patient, mortalities were increased from tuberculosis, pneumonia and bronchitis, nephritis and nephrosis, and from total causes. The suicide rate was high among female patients. Deaths from total malignant neoplasms were higher than expected among patients with lepromatous leprosy for both sexes (49 observed vs. 44.02 expected), whereas they were lower than expected among patients with tuberculoid leprosy (35 observed vs. 36.83 expected); however, the differences were not statistically significant. Mortalities from cancers of the cervix and the esophagus among females with lepromatous leprosy were significantly higher. The risk of lymphoreticular cancers was not increased.</p>
PY - 1981
SP - 285
EP - 9
T2 - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
TI - Cancer and other causes of death among leprosy patients.
VL - 67
SN - 0027-8874
ER -