Distinctive breast cancer incidence and mortality patterns in well-defined populations may therefore inform etiologic understanding.
Asian-Americans, both those born here and new immigrants, have distinctive patterns of cancer incidence that doctors should consider when treating them, researchers have found.
Breast cancer incidence has a distinctive age-specific curve (Fig. 3).
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) shows a distinctive geographic distribution, with an incidence of 20 50 per 100,000 in southern China and southeast Asia compared to most of the world, where it is a rare occurrence [ 1– 3].
IBC is associated with special clinical and biological features and a distinctive pattern of recurrence with high incidence of visceral metastases (central nervous system, lung, and liver) as first site of relapse [ 3- 7].
A distinctive and regular seasonal variation in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease was confirmed by this analysis, as has been reported by others (1, 3, 15 – 15 ).
NPC has a very distinctive geographic distribution, with high age-standardised incidence rates recorded for populations living in or originating from Southern China and Asia, the Arctic region, North Africa and parts of the Middle East (Yu and Yuan, 2002).
The most distinctive effect was found for Austria, where mass vaccination decreased incidence to ≈16% of that of the prevaccination era.
ARM is distinctive in that it is a disease which can transition through incidence, progression, regression and disappearance.
Seasonality, with an increased incidence during winter and a decreased incidence during summer, has been considered a distinctive feature of SIDS.
