Unstaged lung cancer in Kentucky.

Comparisons were made for unstaged lung cancer cases both to "staged" lung cancer cases and to unstaged cases from all other sites, in Kentucky for 1996-2000. Principal findings were that the likelihood of the lung cancer cases to be unstaged was greater when the cancer incidence report came from sources other than a hospital. This may implicate data system forces [for availability of necessary data for completing stage at diagnosis] rather than differences between cases per se.

Pediatric cancer in Kentucky: good news.

Pediatric cancer is one of the more poignant aspects associated with the occurrence of this prominent chronic disease. Nationally, pediatric cancers occur with vastly lesser frequency than does adult disease, about 1:40 ratio. Nationally the rate is 14.