Table 1.
Number and proportion of children and AYAs with race, gender and distribution of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in children, adolescents and young adults by race, sex, age and era of diagnosis, SEER 9, 1975–2012
| ALL | AML | HL | ||||
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| N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 4777 | 58.2% | 2015 | 50.9% | 8001 | 53.0% |
| Male | 3424 | 41.8% | 1943 | 49.1% | 7106 | 47.0% |
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| Race | ||||||
| White | 7500 | 91.5% | 3390 | 85.6% | 13494 | 89.3% |
| Black | 701 | 8.5% | 568 | 14.4% | 1613 | 10.7% |
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| Era of diagnosis | ||||||
| 1975–1981 | 82 | 11.7% | 72 | 12.7% | 159 | 9.9% |
| 1982–1988 | 103 | 14.7% | 98 | 17.3% | 217 | 13.5% |
| 1989–1995 | 130 | 18.5% | 89 | 15.7% | 319 | 19.8% |
| 1996–2002 | 143 | 20.4% | 119 | 21.0% | 353 | 21.9% |
| 2003–2007 | 119 | 17.0% | 89 | 15.7% | 277 | 17.2% |
| 2008–2012 | 124 | 17.7% | 101 | 17.8% | 288 | 17.9% |