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thyroid	      12,500       1,111       +115.3      -49.5
ovaries	      21,000      13,181	 +5.2       +2.5
lung		168,000     145,801       +267.4     +264.0
skin melanomas       32,000       6,568       +393.3     +155.0
breast (female)     180,000      43,063	+55.9       +0.2
prostate	    132,000      34,238       +266.4      +20.7
kidney	       26,500      10,427       +120.6      +37.2
liver		15,400       9,554       +107.3      +22.8
non-Hodgkin's
lymphomas	    41,000      20,058       +183.6     +123.1
multiple myeloma     12,500       9,247       +235.8     +194.0
brain		16,900      11,941	+85.2      +50.4
pancreas	     28,300      26,070	+13.6      +17.8
.
All types ex-       962,000     374,747	+40.8      -15.0
cluding lung
.
All types	 1,130,000     520,548	+54.3       +9.6
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Source: C.L. Kosary and others, editors, SEER CANCER STATISTICS
REVIEW 1973-1992 [National Institutes of Health Publication No.
96-2789] (Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 1992), Table
I-3, pg. 17. NIH says historical data for non-whites are not
considered reliable spanning the period 1950-1992 so historical
data are only given for whites.
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leukemia; childhood cancer; hodgkin's disease; bladder cancer;
testicular cancer; laryngeal cancer; colon cancer; rectal cancer;
cervical cancer; stomach cancer; african-americans; blacks;
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