Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Incidence and Mortality Among Hispanics, 1996–2002: The Need for Ethnoregional Studies in Cancer Research
Gustavo D. Cruz, DMD, MPH,
Christian R. Salazar, MPH and
Douglas E. Morse, DDS, PhD
Gustavo D. Cruz, Christian R. Salazar, and Douglas E. Morse are with the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, New York University College of Dentistry, New York, NY.
FIGURE 1——Age-adjusted incidence rates with 95% confidence intervals for cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx by race/ethnicity and gender for the United States as a whole (US), New York State (NYS), and New York City (NYC), 1996–2002.
Note. US data are from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program. New York State and New York City data are from the New York State Cancer Registry. Rates were age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population.
FIGURE 2——Age-specific incidence rates with 95% confidence intervals for cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx among Hispanics by gender for New York State (NYS) and the United States as a whole (US), 1996–2002.
Note. US data are from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program. New York State data are from the New York State Cancer Registry. Rates were age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population.
FIGURE 3——Age-adjusted mortality rates with 95% confidence intervals for cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx by race/ethnicity and gender for the United States as a whole (US), New York State (NYS), and New York City (NYC), 1996–2002.
Note. US data are from the National Center for Health Statistics. New York State and New York City data are from the New York State Cancer Registry. Rates were age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population.
