Surveillance, epidemiology, and end results: incidence and mortality data, 1973-77.

Abstract

This monograph reports detailed information on the incidence of and mortality from cancer in the United States during the initial five years of the National Cancer Institutes Surveillance Program 1973-1977. Data are classified according to sex race age and residence of the patients; anatomic site; and histologic type of cancer. Cancer patient survival will be the subject of a subsequent monograph once enough time has elapsed for survival to be measured. Separate chapters are included on the United States as a whole Connecticut metropolitan Detroit Iowa metropolitan Atlanta metropolitan New Orleans New Mexico Utah Seattle-Puget Sound the San Francisco-Oakland SMSA Hawaii and Puerto Rico.