Keep God Weird

Children in the Northeast are more
likely to be diagnosed with cancer, especially tumours of the
immune system called lymphoma, according to the first U.S. study
identifying regional differences in the disease.

About 179 malignant neoplastic disease lawsuits were identified per million children
in northeasterly states, compared with 165 lawsuits in the Midwest
and Occident and 159 in the South, authorities men of science said in a
study reported today in the diary .

Cancer do in U.S. children under age 16
than any other disease, according to the National Cancer
Institute. Although decease rates are last in the Northeast,
mortality alone isn't a good measure, the study's writers said. New treatments are allowing most patients to dwell longer.

''Our research determinations may be utile for prioritizing
childhood malignant neoplastic disease research and control necessitates in footing of these
demographic and geographical variations,'' research workers from the
in Capital Of Georgia said in
the study.

The research workers didn't offer any theories for the higher
rate of diagnosed lawsuits in the Northeast.

The survey identified 36,446 lawsuits of malignant neoplastic disease in children age
19 and little that were reported from 2001 to 2003 to statewide
registries run by the CDC and the malignant neoplastic disease institute. The data
covered about 90 percentage of the population after seven states
whose figs didn't ran into quality criteria were excluded. Population-based rates were calculated from 2000 Census figures.

Leukemia Most Park

Leukemia was the most common paediatric malignant neoplastic disease diagnosis,
consistent with earlier studies, accounting for 26 percentage of
cases. About 18 percentage involved neoplasms, or abnormal cell
growth, in the cardinal nervous system, and 15 percentage were
lymphoma.

Lymphoma and cardinal nervous system tumors were more
common in children from the Northeast, where information from all
states was included. The charge per unit of leukaemia diagnoses was highest
in the West, possibly linked to a bunch of lawsuits under
investigation in Nevada, the research workers said.

The Northeast part includes New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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