Public health reports
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Public health reports · Jan 1991
Cancer mortality in Cuba and among the Cuban-born in the United States: 1979-81.
The Cuban-born population of the United States, enumerated at 608,000 in the 1980 census, has been little studied with regard to cancer mortality. Being older and rarely migrating back to Cuba, Cuban Americans present a good subject for comparative cancer mortality. Age-adjusted death rates for selected causes of cancer are compared in this paper for Cubans in Cuba, the Cuban-born in the United States, and all whites in the United States. ⋯ Finally, the Cuban-born in the United States have higher death rates from cancer of the liver than do Cubans in Cuba or whites in the United States. In general, the profile found for the Cuban-born in the United States reflects the high socioeconomic status of the pre-1980 migrants as well as their exposure to the U. S. environment.