Cancer and birth defects surveillance system for communities around the Savannah River Site
This technical report presents the age-adjusted total, and race and sex specific geographic patterns of cancer mortality for South Carolina (SC) counties utilizing the 1953--1987 average annual age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs). The mortality information was obtained from the State Cancer Control Map and Data Program produced by the National Cancer Institute , Centers for Disease Control and the American Cancer Society. The AAMRs for selected primary sites are classified as significantly different or not significantly different from the corresponding United States and SC mortality rates. Categories for classification of the rates are determined using 95% confidence intervals. Geographic patterns of significantly high county AAMRs are identified and discussed. Individual county rates are not emphasized. The terminology, mortality rates used throughout this report pertains to the 1953--1987 AAMRS.
- Research Organization:
- Medical Univ. of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (United States). Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and System Sciences
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG09-91SR18217
- OSTI ID:
- 6419276
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SR/18217-2; ON: DE93015421
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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