Cancer in Louisiana: Volume 6

Authors

• Vivien W. Chen, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Jean Fike Craig, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Elizabeth Fontham, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Youping Lin, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Pelayo Correa, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

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Description

Cancer registration in Louisiana has developed gradually. It has been providing important information since 1947 when the Charity Hospital Tumor Registry was established. The Charity Hospital Registry was an important source of information on cancer patient survival for the National Cancer Institute publications on "End Results", in which a large proportion ( 44 % ) of the data on blacks were from this source. In 1973 the National Cancer Institute provided funds for an incidence registry to cover the three parishes of the Greater New Orleans Area. It provided very valuable data which became part of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program and publications. The National Cancer Institute ceased to fund the Registry in 1980. The state Health Department then funded the Registry and placed it administratively first under Charity Hospital and then under the Office of Health. Professionally and technically, however, the Registry is directed by the Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board. The expansion of the Registry has followed careful planning. This monograph represents the first phase of the expansion to include the remaining parishes of South Louisiana. Data from the area incorporated in the south are important for several reasons: it represents the heartland of the Cajun culture and it represents the area most heavily industrialized in the state. This unique combination provides excellent opportunities for research into the causation and natural history of cancer. The data in this monograph are presented as numbers of cases and age-adjusted incidence rates. This facilitates comparisons between the different southern regions and provides basic information which allow further analysis and interpretation. The published figures are provided to the scientific community with the hope that they will be analyzed in order to advance our knowledge about the cancer problem in Louisiana.

Publication Date

1-1-1990

Publisher

Louisiana Tumor Registry

Comments

The Louisiana Tumor Registry can be reached at LTR-info@lsuhsc.edu

Recommended Citation

Chen, Vivien W.; Craig, Jean Fike; Fontham, Elizabeth; Lin, Youping; and Correa, Pelayo, "Cancer in Louisiana: Volume 6" (1990). Cancer in Louisiana. 43.
https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/soph_cla/43