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Table 28.1

Childhood Cancer

Age-Adjusted SEER Cancer Incidencea and U.S. Deathb Rates, 2013-2017
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 16.8 17.5 16.1 2.1 2.2 1.9 18.7 19.3 18.0 2.3 2.5 2.0
All Sites, Whites 17.6 18.4 16.8 2.1 2.3 2.0 19.7 20.4 19.0 2.3 2.6 2.1
All Sites, Blacks 12.7 12.7 12.6 2.0 2.1 2.0 13.7 13.8 13.6 2.2 2.3 2.1
Bone & Joint 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.0 1.1 0.9 0.2 0.3 0.2
Brain & Other nervous 3.5 3.7 3.4 0.7 0.8 0.6 3.2 3.4 3.1 0.7 0.7 0.6
Hodgkin lymphoma 0.6 0.7 0.5 - - - 1.2 1.3 1.2 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 0.1 0.1
Leukemia 5.2 5.6 4.8 0.5 0.6 0.5 4.7 5.2 4.2 0.6 0.7 0.5
Acute lymphocytic 4.1 4.4 3.8 0.2 0.3 0.2 3.5 3.9 3.1 0.2 0.3 0.2
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 1.1 1.5 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.0 1.4 1.8 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.1
Soft tissue 1.1 1.0 1.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 1.1 1.1 1.1 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 21 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, Georgia excluding ATL/RG, Idaho, New York and Massachusetts).

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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