US cancer incidence and mortality in the first year of life
J. L. Bader and R. W. Miller
Based on the Third National Cancer Survey (1969 to 1971), the incidence of
malignant neoplasms in the United States was 183.4 per million live births
per year in infants younger than 1 year and 36.5 in newborns younger than
29 days. In both age groups, neuroblastoma was the most commonly diagnosed
neoplasm. Overall, cancer incidence in infants younger than 1 year was
almost 3.5 times greater than mortality determined from US death
certificates from 1960 to 1969. For individual tumor types, the ratio
between incidence and mortality varied between 159 for retinoblastoma and
1.5 for leukemia largely reflecting relative differences in survival due to
treatment.
