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Table 1 Incidence and Mortality 2003–2007, Connecticut, Males

From: A diagnostic bias might be a much simpler explanation for the apparently elevated risk for nasopharyngeal cancer with respect to formaldehyde

Entity ICD-10 Incidencea UCDb MCDc M/Id
   N AS(W)e N ASRf N ASRf  
Tonsil C09 271 2.3 26 0.29 28 0.31 0.10
Other oropharynx C10 55 0.5 26 0.30 33 0.39 0.47
Nasopharynx C11 63 0.6 19 0.22 24 0.29 0.30
Hypopharynx C12-C13 128 1.1 18 0.21 21 0.25 0.14
Pharynx, unspecified C14 21 0.2 55 0.64 71 0.83 2.62
Nose, sinuses, etc. C30-C31 65 0.5 8 0.11 9 0.11 0.12
Pharynx C09-C14 538 4.7 144 1.66 177 2.07 0.27
  1. a- from IARC (2014) Cancer in Five Continents, Vol. X
  2. b- Underlying cause of death; from CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, Underlying Cause of Death 1999–2014 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released 2015. Accessed at https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html on Jan 14, 2016
  3. c- Multiple cause of death; from CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death 1999–2014 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released 2015. Accessed at https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html on Jan 14, 2016
  4. d- Ratio between absolute numbers of cases for underlying cause of death and incidence
  5. e- age-standardized rate (world population)
  6. f- age-standardized rate (2000 U.S. Std. Population)