RT Journal
A1 Bader JL, Miller RW
T1 US cancer incidence and mortality in the first year of life
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1979
FD February 1
VO 133
IS 2
SP 157
OP 159
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020047010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130020047010
AB • Based on the Third National Cancer Survey (1969 to 1971), the incidence of malignant neoplasms in the United States was 183.4 per million live births per year in infants younger than 1 year and 36.5 in newborns younger than 29 days. In both age groups, neuroblastoma was the most commonly diagnosed neoplasm. Overall, cancer incidence in infants younger than 1 year was almost 3.5 times greater than mortality determined from US death certificates from 1960 to 1969. For individual tumor types, the ratio between incidence and mortality varied between 159 for retinoblastoma and 1.5 for leukemia largely reflecting relative differences in survival due to treatment.(Am J Dis Child 133:157-159, 1979)