Identifying States with a Higher Age-Standardized Incidence Rate for Lung Cancer in Non-Hispanic Blacks vs Non-Hispanic Whites in Both Women and Men: United States, 2015-2017.

Background: Higher overall age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs) for lung-bronchus cancer in non-Hispanic (NH) African Americans/Blacks (NH Blacks) vs NH Whites have been reported in the United States for men and not women, but surveillance is needed by sex and age group in each state/District of Columbia.

Methods: The aim of this study was to identify any state with a statistically significantly elevated NH Black/NH White ratio (>1.00, with 95% CI not including 1.

Anatomical variation in the right non-recurrent laryngeal nerve reported from studies using pre-operative arterial imaging.

The right non-recurrent (inferior) laryngeal nerve (NRLN) is a rare anatomical variant associated with an arterial anomaly, the aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA), that is detectable by pre-operative imaging (POI) using computed tomography and/or ultrasound. Most surgical studies have utilized two major types, NRLNs arising near the upper pole of the thyroid gland (type 1), vs. at a lower level (type 2) but with two subtypes defined by relationships to the inferior thyroid artery (ITA).

Declining Proportion of Incident Squamous Cell Carcinomas of the Oral Cavity Coded as Unknown for American Joint Committee TNM Stage:SEER Registries, 2004-2014.

Background: For squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity (OCSCC), American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM stage at diagnosis is widely used by clinicians. In US cancer registries, AJCC 6th edition stage was derived by computer algorithm from codes based on the Collaborative Stage System (CSS) for diagnoses from 2004-2015, but unknown stage is an issue.

Methods: A research database of population-based Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program registries (covering about 28% of the US population) included AJCC stage for diagnoses in 2004-2014.

Oropharyngeal Carcinomas Strongly Associated with Human Papillomavirus: Incidence Trends in the Elderly US Population Using SEER vs US Cancer Statistics Databases.

Background: For squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the base of tongue and palatine tonsil, the oropharyngeal sites most strongly associated with human papillomavirus (HPV), increasing age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs) (2002-2012) have been reported for elderly US men but not women. These findings were based on data from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registries, covering 28% of the US population.

Methods: Trends in ASIRs (2001- 2014) at ages ≥65 years for base of tongue-palatine tonsil SCC were analyzed using a SEER research database, along with a US Cancer Statistics (USCS) research database with registries covering 48 states (98% of the US population).

Surveillance of Tonsillar Cancer Incidence Rates in Minority Groups vs Non-Hispanic Whites in Large US Metropolitan Areas.

BACKGROUND: For oropharyngeal (OP) cancers at anatomical sites regarded as related to human papillomavirus (HPV), surveillance using population-based cancer registries has shown that age-standardized incidence rates are higher in US non-Hispanic whites (NHWs) vs minority groups. Surveillance in large racially-ethnically diverse urban areas also should be considered. METHODS: Using the US Cancer Statistics database, age-standardized incidence rates per year were obtained for 2003–2013 for carcinomas of the tonsil, the OP site most strongly associated with HPV.