van der Wal JM, et al. - Via a population-based retrospective study, researchers examined the hypothesis that cancer mortality rates among the Moluccan–Dutch, the oldest non-Western migrant group to arrive in the Netherlands following the Second World War, are comparable to those in the general Dutch population. No variations in all-cancer mortality between Moluccan–Dutch and the general Dutch population was noted. Among Moluccan–Dutch mortality was greater for liver, cervix and corpus uteri cancers, however, it was lower for stomach, oesophagus, kidney and nervous system cancers. For most cancers, mortality risk in comparison with the general Dutch population differed between various generations of Moluccan–Dutch. Thus, when compared with the general Dutch population, several decades following migration, the Moluccan–Dutch demonstrated comparable all-cancer mortality, but distinct cancer-specific mortality rates.