Pediatric Thyroid Carcinoma Incidence and Temporal Trends in the USA (1973–2007): Race or Shifting Diagnostic Paradigm?

Table 2

Incidence of pediatric thyroid cancer in the USA by race, SEER dataset, in 1973–2007.

Year of diagnosis	Whites			Blacks			Others
	Rates	95% CI		Rates	95% CI		Rates	95% CI
		LL	UL		LL	UL		LL	UL
1973	0.5	0.4	0.8	0	0	0.6	0.3	0	1.5
1974	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.1	0	0.9	0	0	0.9
1975	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.2	0	0.9	0.4	0.1	1.6
1976	0.7	0.5	0.9	0.1	0	0.7	0.7	0.1	1.9
1977	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.2	0	0.9	0.6	0.1	1.9
1978	0.6	0.4	0.8	0.5	0.1	1.2	0.2	0	1.1
1979	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.2	0	0.9	0.6	0.1	1.8
1980	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.1	0	0.7	0.4	0	1.4
1981	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.1	1	0.9	0.3	2.2
1982	0.6	0.4	0.8	0.2	0	0.9	0.4	0	1.3
1983	0.7	0.5	1	0.1	0	0.7	0.5	0.1	1.6
1984	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.1	0	0.7	0.2	0	1
1985	0.7	0.5	1	0.1	0	0.7	0.4	0	1.2
1986	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.1	1	0.7	0.2	1.8
1987	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.2	0	0.8	0.5	0.1	1.5
1988	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.1	0	0.6	0.3	0	1.2
1989	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.2	0	0.8	1.1	0.4	2.3
1990	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.2	0	0.8	0.3	0	1.1
1991	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.2	0	0.8	0	0	0.5
1992	0.7	0.5	1	0.1	0	0.6	1.2	0.5	2.4
1993	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.4	0.1	1.1	0.4	0.1	1.3
1994	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.1	0	0.6	0.9	0.3	1.8
1995	0.7	0.5	1	0.2	0	0.8	0.8	0.3	1.8
1996	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.9	0.4	0.1	1.1
1997	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.1	0	0.5	0.6	0.2	1.5
1998	0.7	0.5	1	0.3	0.1	0.9	0.5	0.1	1.2
1999	0.8	0.6	1	0.2	0	0.7	0.5	0.1	1.2
2000	0.7	0.5	1	0.2	0	0.7	0.8	0.3	1.7
2001	0.8	0.5	1	0.2	0	0.6	0.2	0	0.8
2002	0.8	0.6	1.1	0.1	0	0.5	0.5	0.1	1.2
2003	0.8	0.6	1.1	0.2	0	0.6	0.7	0.3	1.5
2004	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.2	0	0.6	0.6	0.2	1.3
2005	0.5	0.4	0.8	0.1	0	0.5	0.7	0.2	1.5
2006	0.6	0.4	0.9	0.2	0	0.6	0.6	0.2	1.3
2007	0.8	0.6	1.1	0.2	0	0.6	0.8	0.3	1.6

LL: lower limit of confidence limit; UL: upper limit of confidence limit; CI: confidence interval.