PMID- 8167262
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19940602
LR  - 20220316
IS  - 0957-5243 (Print)
IS  - 0957-5243 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 2
DP  - 1994 Mar
TI  - Cancer incidence among Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah (United States) 1971-85.
PG  - 149-56
AB  - We calculated age-adjusted incidence rates per 100,000 by religion (Mormon, 
      non-Mormon) for Utah (United States) using the 49,182 cancer cases occurring 
      between 1971-85. For all causes of cancer, the rate in Utah for male members of 
      the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) was about 24 
      percent less than the comparable US rate. There was a 50-percent lower rate of 
      cancers associated with cigarette smoking among LDS men. Non-LDS (NLDS) men in 
      Utah experienced an incidence of smoking-associated cancers slightly higher than 
      other US men. LDS men had an incidence of those cancers not associated with 
      smoking slightly lower than US men, and NLDS men had a 40-percent higher rate 
      than US men because of higher rates of melanoma and cancers of the lip and 
      prostate gland. LDS women had an all-sites cancer rate 24 percent below the 
      comparable US rate, and a 60-percent lower rate of smoking-associated cancers. 
      The incidence of cancer not associated with smoking was 20 percent lower for LDS 
      women compared with US women and was the result of lower rates of cancers of the 
      colon, breast, and uterine cervix. NLDS women had a 13-percent higher incidence 
      of cancers not associated with smoking because of higher rates of cancers of the 
      lip and breast.
FAU - Lyon, J L
AU  - Lyon JL
AD  - Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of 
      Medicine, Salt Lake City.
FAU - Gardner, K
AU  - Gardner K
FAU - Gress, R E
AU  - Gress RE
LA  - eng
GR  - N01 CN 05222/CN/NCI NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Cancer Causes Control
JT  - Cancer causes & control : CCC
JID - 9100846
SB  - IM
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology
MH  - *Christianity
MH  - Female
MH  - Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Lip Neoplasms/epidemiology
MH  - Lung Neoplasms/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Melanoma/epidemiology
MH  - Neoplasms/*epidemiology
MH  - Prostatic Neoplasms/epidemiology
MH  - Registries
MH  - *Religion and Medicine
MH  - Smoking/adverse effects
MH  - Utah/epidemiology
MH  - Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/epidemiology
EDAT- 1994/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1994/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1994/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1994/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1994/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1994/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/BF01830261 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Cancer Causes Control. 1994 Mar;5(2):149-56. doi: 10.1007/BF01830261.