Secular trends in cancer mortality, California 1970-1998

Cancer Detection and Prevention

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-154

  Nasseri, Kiumarss ^a  

^a Cancer Center of Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Cancer mortality; Descriptive epidemiology; Epidemiology; Joinpoint; Secular trend

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842583893     PISSN: 0361090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdp.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Welch H.G., Schwartz L.M., Woloshin S. Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer? JAMA. 283:2000;2975-2978.
2. Chevarley F., White E. Recent trends in breast cancer mortality among white and black US women. Am. J. Public Health. 87:1997;775-781.
3. Chu K.C., Tarone R.E., Kessler L.G.et al. Recent trends in US breast cancer incidence, survival, and mortality rates. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 88:1996;1571-1579.
4. Etzioni R., Legler J.M., Feuer E.J., Merrill R.M., Cronin K.A., Hankey B.F. Cancer surveillance series: interpreting trends in prostate cancer. Part III. Quantifying the link between population prostate-specific antigen testing and recent declines in prostate cancer mortality. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 91:1999;1033-1039.
5. Dennis L.K., Resnick M.I. Analysis of recent trends in prostate cancer incidence and mortality. Prostate. 42:2000;247-252.
6. Walker J.J., Brewster D., Gould A., Raab G.M. Trends in incidence of and mortality from invasive cancer of the uterine cervix in Scotland (1975-1994). Public Health. 112:1998;373-378.
7. Devesa S.S., Grauman D.J., Blot W.J., Fraumeni J.F. Jr. Cancer surveillance series: changing geographic patterns of lung cancer mortality in the United States, 1950 through 1994. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 91:1999;1040-1050.
8. Wingo P.A., Ries L.A.G., Rosenberg H.M., Miller D.S., Edwards B.K. Cancer incidence and mortality, 1973-1995: a report card for the US Cancer. 82:1998;1197-1207.
9. Laheij R.J., Straatman H., Verbeek A.L., Jansen J.B. Mortality trend from cancer of the gastric cardia in The Netherlands, 1969-1994. Int. J. Epidemiol. 28:1999;391-395.
10. Lopez-Abente G., Pollan M., Vergara A.et al. Age-period-cohort modeling of colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in Spain. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 6:1997;999-1005.
11. Wang P.D., Lin R.S. Age-period-cohort analysis of cervical cancer mortality in Taiwan, 1974-1992. Acta Obstet. Gynecol. Scand. 76:1997;697-702.
12. Robertson C., Boyle P. Statistical modeling of breast cancer incidence and mortality rates in Scotland. Br. J. Cancer. 76:1997;1248-1252.
13. Tarone R.E., Chu K.C., Gaudette L.A. Birth cohort and calendar period trends in breast cancer mortality in the United States and Canada. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 89:1997;251-256.
14. Chu K.C., Baker S.G., Tarone R.E. A method for identifying abrupt changes in US cancer mortality trends. Cancer. 86:1999;157-169.
15. Kim H.-J., Fay M.P., Feuer E.J., Midthune D.N. Permutation tests for joinpoint regression with application to cancer rates. Statist. Med. 19:2000;335-351.
16. Howe H.L., Wingo P.A., Thun M.J.et al. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer (1973 through 1998), featuring cancers with recent increasing trends. JNCI. 93:2001;824-842.
17. Edwards B.K., Howe H.L., Ries L.A.et al. Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973-1999, featuring implications of age and aging on US cancer burden. Cancer. 94:2002;2766-2792.
18. Kowng SL, Perkins CI, Morris CR, et al. Cancer in California: 1988-1998. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Health Services, Cancer Surveillance Section; December 2000.
19. US Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Instructions for classifying the underlying cause of death, 1990. Hyattsville, MD; 1995.
20. SEER cause of death recode 1969+ (cancers). Accessible at http://www.seer.cancer.gov/codrecode/print_cod.cancer_1969+.html.
21. California Department of Finance. Race/ethnic population estimates with age and sex detail, 1970-1998 [database on line]. Sacramento, CA: State of California Department of Finance; January 1998.
22. National Cancer Institute. SEER*Stat 3.0: a statistical package for the analysis of SEER and other cancer databases. National Cancer Institute; April 2000.
23. US Bureau of Census. Census of population and housing 1970: general population characteristics, Final Report PC(1)-B. Washington: Bureau of Census.
24. Miller BA, Ries LAG, Hankey BF, et al., editors. SEER cancer statistics review: 1973-1990, National Cancer Institute. NIH Publication No. 93-2789; 1993.
25. Ernster V.L. Female lung cancer. Annu. Rev. Public Health. 17:1996;97-114.
26. Pierce JP, Gilpin EA, Emery SL, et al. Tobacco control in California: who's winning the war? An evaluation of the tobacco control program, 1989-1996. La Jolla, CA: University of California, San Diego; 1998.
27. State-specific prevalence of current cigarette smoking among adults, and policies and attitudes about secondhand smoke - United States, 2000. MMWR 2001;50:1101-6.
28. Etzioni R., Legler J.M., Feuer E.J., Merrill R.M., Cronin K.A., Hankey B.F. Cancer surveillance series: interpreting trends in prostate cancer. Part III. Quantifying the link between population prostate-specific antigen testing and recent declines in prostate cancer mortality. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 91:1999;1033-1039.
29. Feuer E.J., Merrill R.M., Hankey B.F. Cancer surveillance series: interpreting trends in prostate cancer. Part II. Cause of death misclassification and the recent rise and fall in prostate cancer mortality. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 91:1999;1025-1032.
30. Profile of general demographic characteristics: 2000. Table DP1. CA, US: US Census Bureau.
31. Percy C., Stanek E. 3rd, Gloeckler L. Accuracy of cancer death certificates and its effect on cancer mortality statistics. Am. J. Public Health. 71:1981;242-250.
32. Sharp G.B., Cologne J.B., Fukuhara T., Itakura H., Yamamoto M., Tokuoka S. Temporal changes in liver cancer incidence rates in Japan: accounting for death certificate inaccuracies and improving diagnostic techniques. Int. J. Cancer. 93:2001;751-758.
33. Weinstock M.A., Reynes J.F. Validation of cause-of-death certification for outpatient cancers: the contrasting cases of melanoma and mycosis fungoides. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148:1998;1184-1186.
34. Rushton L., Romaniuk H. Comparison of the diagnosis of leukemia from death certificates, cancer registration and histological reports - implications for occupational case-control studies. Br. J. Cancer. 75(11):1997;1694-1698.
35. Hoeksema M.J., Law C. Cancer mortality rates fall: a turning point for the nation. JNCI. 88:1996;1706-1707.