British Journal of Cancer – Trends in breast, ovarian and cervical cancer incidence in Mumbai, India over a 30-year period, 1976-2005: an age-period-cohort analysis

P. K. Dhillon, B. B. Yeole, R. Dikshit, A. P. Kurkure and F. Bray
Trends in breast, ovarian and cervical cancer incidence in Mumbai, India over a 30-year period, 1976–2005: an age–period–cohort analysis
British Journal of Cancer advance online publication 9 August 2011; doi:10.1038/bjc.2011.301

The article, published in the British Journal of Cancer, studied period and cohort trends in female-specific cancers in Mumbai, India during the period 1976 and 2005 using incidence data from the Mumbai Cancer Registry. The authors found that while breast cancer incidence rates significantly increased at 1.1% per year on average, there were compensatory significant declines of 1.8% per year in rates of cervix cancer. A number of factors are likely responsible for the changing risk profile among younger generations. In general terms, they likely include a changing prevalence and distribution of the key lifestyle and reproductive determinants for these cancers among Mumbai women, brought about in part by increasing average levels of education and socioeconomic status.Read Full Text