Table 1. Number of patients and annual rate per million children of neuroblastoma for both sexes in Osaka, 1975–2009.

	Period	Number of cases	Age-specific rate				ASR	SIR/SMR (95% CI)
			0	1–4	5–9	10–14
Incidence	1975–1979	84	27.7	16.7	3.5	0.6	8.6	1.0
	1980–1984	60	24.1	14.6	3.2	0.6	7.5	0.9	0.8 to 1.0
	1985–1989	111	109.7	21.8	3.7	1.8	16.7	1.9	1.8 to 2.1
	1990–1994	141	220.6	18.3	5.2	0.8	24.4	2.8	2.6 to 3.1
	1995–1999	99	164.6	12.5	2.9	0.4	17.9	2.1	1.9 to 2.3
	2000–2004	111	139.3	22.2	7.3	1.0	20.2	2.3	2.1 to 2.6
	2005–2009	56	27.5	26.4	2.5	0.0	11.1	1.3	1.2 to 1.4
Mortality	1975–1979	39	4.4	9.7	1.6	0.3	4.0	1.0
	1980–1984	44	11.1	12.0	2.3	0.6	5.5	1.4	1.2 to 1.6
	1985–1989	38	10.5	11.2	2.2	1.5	5.4	1.4	1.2 to 1.6
	1990–1994	27	9.3	10.3	1.7	0.4	4.6	1.2	1.0 to 1.3
	1995–1999	24	7.0	8.9	2.4	0.4	4.2	1.1	0.9 to 1.2
	2000–2004	15	7.3	6.0	1.0	0.0	2.7	0.7	0.6 to 0.8
	2005–2009	14	0.0	7.7	1.0	0.0	2.7	0.7	0.6 to 0.8

ASR, age-standardized rate to the world population; CI, confidence interval; SIR/SMR, standardized incidence rate/standardized mortality rate.