U.S. Cancer Mortality Rates and Trends, 1950-1979, Volume 4NCI/EPA Interagency Agreement of Environmental Carcinogenesis, 1983 - Cancer |
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100 ICD code(s 157 by county 40 Cancer age group atlas Bayes estimates Bone including Jaw Bronchus cancer mortality rates Cancer White Males Cancers Combined Nonwhite Cancers Combined White Cavity including Tongue Cervix Uteri Change ICD code(s Chorion and Uterus codes Connective and Soft county Cancer County includes death rate decade economic area 0.0 economic area Cancer environmental epidemiological Gallbladder Health Hodgkin's Disease White ICDA including Bile Ducts including Jaw White including Tongue Nonwhite Kidney and Ureter Large Intestine Nonwhite Large Intestine White Malignant Melanoma Melanoma of Skin Melanoma Skin Cancer Multiple Myeloma Multiple Myeloma Nonwhite Multiple Myeloma White Nasopharynx Nonwhite Females Nonwhite Males number of deaths Oral Cavity including Pleura rate maps RATES AND TRENDS Relative Change ICD Research Triangle Park Skin Cancer White standard million Thyroid Gland White Trachea trend maps U.S. CANCER MORTALITY U.S. Govt Urinary Organs Uteri Nonwhite Females Uteri White Females White Females
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Page ii - This document has been reviewed in accordance with US Environmental Protection Agency policy and approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.
Page iii - The many benefits of our modern, developing, industrial society are accompanied by certain hazards. Careful assessment of the relative risk of existing and new manmade environmental hazards is necessary for the establishment of sound regulatory policy.
Page iii - ... is necessary for the establishment of sound regulatory policy. These regulations serve to enhance the quality of our environment in order to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of our Nation's population. The Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, conducts a coordinated environmental health research program in toxicology, epidemiology, and clinical studies using human volunteer subjects. These studies address problems in air pollution, non-ionizing...
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Page xiv - Coding Format Each death record contains the county of residence, year and month of death, age in years, race (white or non-white), sex, and ICD rubric. For more detail on death records, see the Technical Appendix from Vital Statistics of the United States 1985 and other years [6].
Page xxi - Methods for the Analysis of Mortality Risks Across Heterogeneous Small Populations: Examination of Space-Time Gradients in Cancer Mortality in North Carolina Counties 1970-75.
Page xix - ... base covers 38 years and four revisions of the ICD. This long time span required achieving comparability between time periods covered when different rules of classification of underlying cause of death were in effect. We did not want to create artificially an increased in number of deaths or in death rates by attributing deaths to a site specific cancer solely because of a change in classification rules. To avoid this potential artifact, we developed comparability codes for translation between...
Page iii - The US Environmental Protection Agency was created in response to increasing public concern about the dangers of pollution to the health and welfare of the American people and their environment. The complexities of environmental problems originate in the deep interdependent relationships between the various physical and biological segments of man's natural and social world. Solutions to these environmental problems require an integrated program of research and development using input from a number...
Page xxi - ... International Classification of Diseases adapted for use in the United States, eighth revision, PHS publication 1693, 1967. (3] World Health Organization, International Classification of Diseases, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth revision, Geneva, 1940, 1953, 1957, 1967, 1978. [4] AJ Klebba, JH Scott , "Estimates of Selected Comparability Ratios Based on Dual Coding of the 1976 Death Certificates by the Eighth and Ninth Revisions of the Intenational Classification of Diseases. National...
Page xxi - ... Based on Dual Coding of the 1976 Death Certificates by the Eighth and Ninth Revisions of the Intenational Classification of Diseases. National Center for Health Statistics", Monthly Vital Statistics Report, 28, 11, February 29, 1980 (supplement). [5] J.Nectoux, Comparison of the 7th and 8 th Revision of the ICD and Tables of Equivalence in Chapter IV of CANCER INCIDENCE IN FIVE CONTINENTS, Volume III. J. Waterhouse, P. Correa, C. Muir, and J. Powell, editors. Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon,...