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Table 4 Comparison of standardized average annual incidence rates of lymphoid leukemias per million children from cancer registries

From: Childhood acute leukemias are frequent in Mexico City: descriptive epidemiology

  

Study

Parameters

  

Area

Source of data

Population

Age range years

ye

Period

SAAIRa

Mexico City

Present Study

Mexicans

0-14

2006-2007

49.5

USA

SEERb [25]

All races

0-14

2007

35.0

 

CDCc (NPCR) [26]

All races

0-14

2003-2007

37.0

  

Hispanics

0-19

2003-2007

46.0

 

ACSSRd [2]

Hispanics

0-14

2002-2006

46.7

Texas

TCRe [24]

All races

0-14

1999-2008

41.4

California

Wilkinson et al. [1]

Hispanic

0-14

1988-1998

51.1

  

non-Hispanic White

0-14

1988-1998

40.8

Florida

Wilkinson et al. [1]

Hispanic

0-14

1988-1998

49.2

  

non-Hispanic White

0-14

1988-1998

37.1

Costa Rica

Monge et al. [5]

Costa Rican

0-14

1981-1996

43.1

El Salvador

Mejía-Aranguré et al. [6]

Salvadoran

0-11

1996-2000

34.2

Brazil (Sao Paulo)

de Camargo B et al. [28]

Brazilian

0-19

1998-2002

47.5

  1. a SAAIR: standardized average annual incidence rates; b SEER: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program in United States of America (nine areas: Atlanta, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico and Utah);c CDC (NPCR): Center for Disease Control, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Program of Cancer Registries in USA; d ACSSR: American Cancer Society, Surveillance Research (13 SEER cancer registry areas: Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose Monterey, Seattle, Alaska Native Tumor Registry, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, and Utah); e TCR: Texas Cancer Registry, Texas Department of State Health Services, Cancer Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch.