Cancer in Louisiana: Volume 1

Authors

• Pelayo Correa, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Vivien W. Chen, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Jean Fike Craig, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Thomas Ballinger, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• William Campbell, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans
• Diego E. Zavala, LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

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Description

Cancer in Louisiana, Volume VII is a complement of its preceding volume. It depicts the data contained in Volume VI in graphic form to emphasize the findings. In addition, this monograph provides information on geographic variation among the five regions in Louisiana (intrastate comparison) and compares incidence rates for all of South Louisiana with those of individual registries in the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) program as well as with the overall SEER rates. The SEER program of the National Cancer Institute was established as a result of the National Cancer Act of 1971 which mandated the collection, analysis, and dissemination of cancer data. The SEER program collects incidence data from designated population-based registries in various areas of the country. These registries represent approximately 10% of the United States population. Even though they are a non-random sample, selected mainly because of unique population characteristics, their combined rates are usually reported as the "national" rates. The SEER database used for comparison in this monograph includes five states and four metropolitan areas: the states of Connecticut, Iowa, New Mexico, Utah, and Hawaii and the metropolitan areas of Detroit, San Francisco-Oakland, Atlanta and Seattle-Puget Sound. It should be noted that the black population of the SEER program represents predominantly urban blacks, whereas the white population includes one predominantly rural state (Iowa) and a state with a 70%, Mormon population known to experience lower cancer rates (Utah). A detailed description of the Louisiana Tumor Registry (L TR), its regional registries and its operation was presented in the first chapter of Cancer in Louisiana, Volume VI. The procedures for data collection, quality control, and computation of incidence rates are also included in Volume VI. Parishes covered by each region, population pyramids and a description of the population characteristics of each region are presented in this volume as well as in Volume VI.

Publication Date

7-25-1983

Publisher

Louisiana Tumor Registry

Comments

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

Recommended Citation

Correa, Pelayo; Chen, Vivien W.; Craig, Jean Fike; Ballinger, Thomas; Campbell, William; and Zavala, Diego E., "Cancer in Louisiana: Volume 1" (1983). Cancer in Louisiana. 48.
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