Since the mid-1970s,cancer death rates among children and adolescents in the United States showed marked declines despite a late increase in incidence for some of the major types (1-3). These trends have previously been shown through 2012. This data brief extends preceding research by showing trends in cancer death rates through 2014 among children and adolescents aged 1-19 years in the United States. Cancer death rates for 1999-2014 are presented and trends are compared for both females and males, by 5-year age group, or for white and black children and adolescents. Percent distributions of cancer deaths among children and adolescents aged 1-19 years are shown by anatomical site for 1999 and 2014.
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