JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(21):1641; doi:10.1093/jnci/djg103
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Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2000, Featuring the Uses of Surveillance Data for Cancer Prevention and Control
by Weir et al. [J Natl Cancer Inst 2003;95:1276-99 (Issue 17)]. On page 1281, in the Lung Cancer and Tobacco Use section of Results, the fifth sentence should read: Delaware, Oklahoma, and West Virginia reported increasing tobacco consumption. On page 1283, in the "Prostate Cancer section of Results, the third sentence should read: [Prostate cancer] death rates for white men ranged from 36.9 per 100 000 men in Wyoming to 24.8 per 100 000 men in Alaska. On page 1289, some of the data in Table 5 Prevalence of prostate-specific antigen testing, incidence of prostate cancer and prostate cancer death rates among black and white men by state are incorrect. On pages 1290-2, some of the data for Table 6 Prevalence of colorectal cancer screening, incidence of colorectal cancer, and colorectal cancer death rates by blacks and whites by state are incorrect. The corrected tables are available in the electronic version of the Journal (http://jncicancerspectrum.oupjournals. org/jnci/content/vol95issue21/). The errors in both Tables 5 and 6 occurred when the incidence, mortality, and risk factor data were sorted into tertiles, and some of the data were assigned to the wrong states. Consequently, the original version of Table 5 contains erroneous data for 17 states, including citing Maryland as having the highest prostate cancer death rate and Hawaii as having the lowest prostate cancer death rate. The original version of Table 6 contains erroneous data for 20 states. However, this error did not affect our conclusions regarding colorectal cancer. The authors regret the errors.
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