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A cross-national perspective of migration and cancer: incidence of five major cancer types among resettlers from the former Soviet Union in Germany and ethnic Germans in Russia

Few studies compared cancer incidence among migrants both to their host countries and to their population of origin. We aimed to compare cancer incidence of ethnic Germans who migrated from the former Soviet Union to Germany (resettlers) to those living in Russia as well as to the German and the Rus...

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Main Authors: Jaehn, Philipp (Author) , Kaucher, Simone (Author) , Pikalova, Lidia V. (Author) , Mazeina, Sofia (Author) , Kajüter, Hiltraud (Author) , Becher, Heiko (Author) , Valkov, Mikhail (Author) , Winkler, Volker (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 02 September 2019
In: BMC cancer
Year: 2019, Volume: 19
ISSN:1471-2407
DOI:10.1186/s12885-019-6058-6
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6058-6
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Author Notes:Philipp Jaehn, Simone Kaucher, Lidia V. Pikalova, Sofia Mazeina, Hiltraud Kajüter, Heiko Becher, Mikhail Valkov and Volker Winkler
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Summary:Few studies compared cancer incidence among migrants both to their host countries and to their population of origin. We aimed to compare cancer incidence of ethnic Germans who migrated from the former Soviet Union to Germany (resettlers) to those living in Russia as well as to the German and the Russian general populations.
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ISSN:1471-2407
DOI:10.1186/s12885-019-6058-6

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