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Diagnostic Group	New Jersey Cases	White Children						Black Children
		New Jersey 1979 - 1995			SEER U.S. 1979 - 1994			New Jersey 1979 - 1995			SEER U.S. 1979 - 1994
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Total	4075	14.6	15.8	13.3	14.0	14.9	13.1	11.2	11.9	10.5	11.7	11.8	11.6
Leukemia	1249	4.6	5.0	4.1	4.2	4.5	3.8	2.7	2.5	2.9	2.7	2.8	2.6
Lymphocytic leukemia	972	3.6	3.9	3.3	3.3	3.6	3.1	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.8
Acute non-lymphocytic leukemia	170	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.6
Chronic myeloid leukemia	28	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
Other specified leukemias	11	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Unspecified leukemias	68	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
Lymphomas	480	1.8	2.4	1.2	1.7	2.2	1.1	1.7	2.4	1.0	1.2	1.6	0.8
Hodgkin's disease	190	0.7	0.9	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.7	1.0	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.4
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	159	0.6	0.8	0.3	0.6	0.8	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.2
Burkitt's lymphoma	75	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0
Miscellaneous lymphoreticular neoplasms 2	22	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
Unspecified lymphomas	34	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Central Nervous System and Miscellaneous Intracranial and Intraspinal Neoplasms	823	3.0	3.2	2.7	3.0	3.3	2.8	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.6	2.6	2.6
Ependymoma	58	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.3
Astrocytoma	370	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.0	1.1	1.0	1.3	1.3	1.2
Primitive neuroectodermal tumors	164	0.6	0.8	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4
Other gliomas	134	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
Miscellaneous intracranial and intraspinal neoplasms	9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Unspecified intracranial and intraspinal neoplasms	88	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0
Sympathetic Nervous System Tumors	307	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.9
Neuroblastoma and ganglioneuoblastoma	298	1.0	1.1	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.8	0.8	0.8
Other sympathetic nervous system tumors	9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Retinoblastoma	127	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4
Renal Tumors	239	0.9	0.7	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.8	1.0	0.9	1.2
Wilms' tumor	221	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.9	0.8	1.1
Renal carcinoma	14	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Unspecified renal tumors	4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hepatic Tumors	52	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1
Hepatoblastoma	32	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Hepatic carcinoma	15	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
Unspecified hepatic tumors	5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Bone Tumors	175	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6
Osteosarcoma	96	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5
Chondrosarcoma	5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ewing's sarcoma	60	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other specified bone tumors	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Unspecified bone tumors	11	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Soft Tissue Sarcomas	251	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.9	1.2	1.3	1.0
Rhabdomyosarcoma and embryonal sarcoma	138	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.4
Fibrosarcoma, neurofibrosarcoma, and other fibromatous	48	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.4
Kaposi's sarcoma	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other specified soft-tissue sarcomas	39	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Unspecified soft-tissue sarcomas	23	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2
Germ-Cell, Trophoblastic and Other Gonadal Neoplasms	145	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.0	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.9
Intracranial and intraspinal germ-cell tumors	20	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
Other and unspecified non-gonadal germ-cell tumors	39	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2
Gonadal germ-cell tumors	75	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.5
Gonadal carcinomas	8	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other and unspecified gonadal tumors	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Carcinomas and Other Epithelial Neoplasms	141	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.3
Adrenocortical carcinoma	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Thyroid carcinoma	46	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma	9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0
Carcinoma	27	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Skin carcinoma	11	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Other and unspecified carcinomas	45	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1
Other and Unspecified Neoplasms	83	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1
Other specifed tumors	6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Other unspecified tumors	77	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Unknown	3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

²Includes Histiocytosis X, which is not included in the ICCC classification of Childhood Cancer from which this table has been adapted. This condition is included here because it is a reportable diagnosis to the New Jersey State Cancer Registry.