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Table 28.1
Childhood Cancer
Age-Adjusted SEER Cancer Incidencea and U.S. Deathb Rates, 2011-2015
By Primary Cancer Site
All Races, Males and Females
| Site | Ages 0-14 | Ages 0-19 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incidence | Mortality | Incidence | Mortality | |||||||||
| Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | |
| All Sites, All Races | 16.4 | 17.0 | 15.9 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 18.2 | 18.7 | 17.6 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| All Sites, Whites | 17.3 | 17.9 | 16.6 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 19.3 | 19.9 | 18.7 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| All Sites, Blacks | 13.1 | 13.0 | 13.2 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 13.7 | 13.8 | 13.6 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Bone & Joint | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Brain & Other nervous | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | - | - | - | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Kidney & Renal pelvis | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| Leukemia | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 4.7 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
| Acute lymphocytic | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Soft tissue | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Footnotes:
Rates are per 100,000 and are age-adjusted to the 2000 US Std Population (19 age groups - Census P25-1130).
a SEER 18 areas (San Francisco, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle, Utah, Atlanta, San Jose-Monterey, Los Angeles, Alaska Native Registry, Rural Georgia, California excluding SF/SJM/LA, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey and Georgia excluding ATL/RG).
b US Mortality Files, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Statistic could not be calculated. Rate based on less than 16 cases for the time interval.
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