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Table 3 Comparison of annual age-adjusted rates of lymphoid leukemias per million for Mexican and Salvadoran children with those for Hispanic children from three U.S. Cancer Registries and for children from Costa Rica

From: Incidence of leukemias in children from El Salvador and Mexico City between 1996 and 2000: Population-based data

Leukemia type

SEER 2001 All races(30)

Mexico City, IMSS

Texas(34)

California(3)

SEER 1992–1998 Hispanics(29)

El Salvador

Florida(4)

Costa Rica(5)

Lymphoid leukemia

33.2

44.9

52.0

44.0

43.0

34.2*

49.7

43.1

  1. IMSS = Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
  2. * This rate is only for children 0–11 years old.
  3. (References)