Sinonasal Cancer and Occupational Exposure in a Population-Based Registry

Table 1

Characteristics of subjects with sinonasal cancer by gender; Lombardy region sinonasal cancer registry, 2008–2011.

	Men		Women		𝑃 value^a
	No.	%	No.	%
No. of subjects	137	100	73	100
Age (median, min–max)	67.7	31.7–88.5	68.4	21.1–94.9	0.70
Cancer site of origin (ICD-10 code)
Nasal cavity (C30.0)	44	32.1	27	37.0	0.01
Maxillary sinus (C31.0)	28	20.4	20	27.4
Ethmoid sinus (C31.1)	32	23.4	5	6.8
Frontal sinus (C31.2)	0	0.0	1	1.4
Sphenoid sinus (C31.3)	3	2.2	6	8.2
Multiple sites	30	21.9	14	19.2
Cancer morphology
Squamous cell carcinoma	54	39.4	34	46.6	0.002
Adenocarcinoma, unspecified	7	5.1	3	4.1
Adenocarcinoma, intestinal type	36	26.3	8	11.0
Adenocarcinoma, nonintestinal type	6	4.4	2	2.7
Adenoid cystic carcinoma	8	5.8	12	16.4
Neuroendocrine carcinoma	10	7.3	0	0.0
Undifferentiated carcinoma	11	8.0	7	9.6
Other	5	3.7	3	4.1
Unknown	0	0.0	4	5.5
Interview
Patient	97	70.8	47	64.4	0.06
Relative	37	27.0	19	26.0
Not performed	3	2.2	7	9.6
Cigarette smoking
Never	40	29.2	34	46.6	0.002
Former (>6 mo. before symptoms)	58	42.3	20	27.4
Current	36	26.3	12	16.4
Unknown	3	2.2	7	9.6
Year of diagnosis
2008 (complete)	32	23.4	23	31.5	0.10
2009 (complete)	50	36.5	22	30.1
2010 (in progress)	37	27.0	12	16.4
2011 (in progress)	18	13.1	16	21.9

ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition
^aFrom chi-square test, except for age (Mann-Whitney 𝑈 test).