Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of incident tongue and larynx cancer cases

	N (N = 261)	%
Year of diagnoses
1995	48	18.4
1996	54	20.7
1997	58	22.2
1998	52	19.9
1999	49	18.8
Gender
Male	185	70.9
Female	76	29.1
Age at diagnosis
<40	11	4.2
40–49	33	12.6
50–59	66	25.3
60–69	96	36.8
70+	55	21.1
Ethnicity
White	202	77.4
Black	24	9.2
Asian	16	6.1
Hispanic	16	6.1
Other/Unknown	3	1.2