Definition: Number of new cancer diagnoses per 100,000 children ages 0-19 over a 5-year period (e.g., in 2012-2016, there were 18.2 new cancer diagnoses per 100,000 California children).
Data Source: National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program Research Data (Nov. 2018); U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group, U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool (Jun. 2018).
Footnote: The notation S refers to numbers that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 5 new childhood cancer diagnoses and to rates that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 20 new diagnoses.
