METHODS The US data were derived from punch cards provided by the National Vital
Statistics Division, USPHS, pertaining to all death certificates of children who died of cancer …

All (29,457) death certificates for children under 15 years of age who died of cancer in the
United States, 1960–1966, were recoded as to cell type, and national mortality rates for each …

ALICE STEWART, MD, and RENATE BARBER, D. Phil. INITS original form the survey of
childhood malignancies conducted by Oxford Uni¬ versity included children under 10 years …

Over the past two decades, childhood cancer mortality in the United States has declined
dramatically. To present a comprehensive picture of childhood cancer occurrence and …

Although it has been known and statistically recorded for many years that neoplasms in
childhood result in a high mortality, only comparatively recently have cancer and related …

Cancer ranks second as a cause of death for both sexes at ages 1–19 years. At ages 1–4
years, it ranks third to accidents and congenital anomalies; at ages 5–9, 10–14 and 15–19 …

Approximately 3,500,000 children were born in the United States during the calendar year
1948. If existing morbidity rates from cancer and mortality rates from all causes of death …

METHODS From 1955-1971, the End Results Group, sponsored in part by the National
Cancer Institute, has collected data in a standard fashion on the outcome of therapy for …

Cancer deaths in 39,235 children in the United States, 1950-1959, were studied with respect
to age, sex, geography, and calendar-time. In leukemia mortality a towering peak at 4 years …

• 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 …