Cancer among Hispanic children in California, 1988-1994 : Comparison with non-Hispanic white children

There has been a perception that California Hispanic children have an unusually high cancer incidence rate, but to the authors' knowledge the only information regarding cancer rates in this population has been the tabular data published in reports issued by the California Department of Health S...

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Published in:Cancer 1999-09, Vol.86 (6), p.1070-1079
Main Authors: GLAZER, E. R, PERKINS, C. I, YOUNG, J. L, SCHLAG, R. D, CAMPLEMAN, S. L, WRIGHT, W. E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Bone Neoplasms - epidemiology
California - epidemiology
Central Nervous System Neoplasms - epidemiology
Child
Child, Preschool
Epidemiology
European Continental Ancestry Group
Female
Germinoma - epidemiology
Hispanic Americans
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Kidney Neoplasms - epidemiology
Leukemia - epidemiology
Lymphoma - epidemiology
Male
Medical sciences
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Soft Tissue Neoplasms - epidemiology
Tumors
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Summary:There has been a perception that California Hispanic children have an unusually high cancer incidence rate, but to the authors' knowledge the only information regarding cancer rates in this population has been the tabular data published in reports issued by the California Department of Health Services. The California Cancer Registry has collected data regarding all cancers diagnosed in California since 1988. Data regarding all invasive cancers diagnosed in California Hispanic children age
ISSN:0008-543X
1097-0142
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990915)86:6<1070::AID-CNCR25>3.0.CO;2-9