INCIDENCE RATES OF CLASSICAL KAPOSIS-SARCOMA AND MULTIPLE-MYELOMA DO NOT CORRELATE

Authors
HJALGRIM H FRISCH M MELBYE M
Citation
H. Hjalgrim et al., INCIDENCE RATES OF CLASSICAL KAPOSIS-SARCOMA AND MULTIPLE-MYELOMA DO NOT CORRELATE, British Journal of Cancer, 78(3), 1998, pp. 419-420
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology
Journal title
British Journal of Cancer → ACNP
ISSN journal
00070920
Volume
78
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
419 - 420
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-0920(1998)78:3<419:IROCKA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We compared population-based incidence rates for classical Kaposi's sa rcoma and multiple myeloma. Neither for men (Spearman's rank correlati on coefficient (r) = 0.01, P = 0.97, 13 pairs) nor for women (r = 0.24 , P = 0.42, 13 pairs) did the incidences of the two conditions correla te, This absence of correlation does not support the hypothesis that K aposi's sarcoma and multiple myeloma share a common aetiology, such as HHV-8.