High cancer mortality rates from childhood leukemia and young adult Hodgkin's disease and lymphoma in the New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia Metropolitan Corridor, 1950 to 1969.
In comparison to the United States as a whole and to their total population age-adjusted rates, the New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia Metropolitan Region was found to have excessively high childhood leukemia and high young adult Hodgkin's disease and lymphoma cancer mortality rates in the period from 1950 to 1969.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007938:Leukemia / Q000401:mortality*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009515:New Jersey; D009518:New York; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012306:Risk