© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 15, 1269-1270,
August 2, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
CORRESPONDENCE |
Let's Leave the Date Out of the Name of the Standard Population
Affiliation of authors: Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine.
Correspondence to: Hoda Anton-Culver, Ph.D., Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 224 Irvine Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-7550 (e-mail: hantoncu@uci.edu).
Ironically, as we are beginning to win the war on cancer, we will soon publish age-standardized incidence and mortality rates that are mostly higher than what the public has seen for many years. This letter is in reference to the adoption by the Department of Health and Human Services of the projected population of the year 2000 for
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