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

Table 5

Incidence of pediatric thyroid cancer in the USA by SEER registries in 1973–2007.

Year of diagnosis	San Francisco-Oakland SMSA	CT	Detroit (Metropolitan)	Hawaii	Iowa	NM	Seattle (Puget Sound)	Utah	Atlanta (Metropolitan)
1973	0.7	0.2	0.5	1.5	0.3	0.2	—	0.6	—
1974	0.4	0.4	0.4	0	0.1	1.2	0.7	0.6	—
1975	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.9	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.3
1976	0.5	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.4	1	0.2
1977	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.7
1978	0.4	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.9	1.2	0.6	0.2	0.2
1979	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.9	0.2	0.6	0.4	0.4	0
1980	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.5
1981	0.7	0.4	0.6	1.2	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2
1982	0.7	0.1	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.0	0.5	0.3	0.3
1983	1	0.4	0.8	0.7	0.5	0.8	0.6	0.8	0
1984	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.3	0.8	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.2
1985	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.7	1.7	0.6	0.5	0.5
1986	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.5	0.3
1987	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.4	1	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.5
1988	0.5	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.7	0.3
1989	0.8	0.5	0.3	1	0.4	0.2	0.7	0.8	0.3
1990	0.9	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.6	1.1	0.2	0.3	0.2
1991	0.2	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.7
1992	1.3	1.1	0.6	1	0.7	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.8
1993	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.2
1994	0.8	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.1	0.8
1995	0.6	0.1	0.6	0.6	1.1	0.7	0.6	1	0.6
1996	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.9	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
1997	0.4	0.1	0.5	1.2	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.6	0.4
1998	0.1	0.6	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.5	0.9	0.8	0.5
1999	0.7	1.3	0.5	0.3	0.9	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.4
2000	0.8	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.3
2001	0.6	1.2	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.6	0.4
2002	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.3	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.4	1
2003	0.6	0.9	0.5	0.3	0.8	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.6
2004	0.5	0.8	0.3	0.6	0.5	1.1	0.4	0.6	0.6
2005	0.3	0.7	0.4	1.2	0.4	0.5	0.8	0.4	0.2
2006	0.8	0.8	0.6	0	0.4	0.9	0.8	0.1	0.4
2007	0.4	0.7	0.4	1.3	0.6	0.9	0.8	1.3	0.7