Atlas of Cancer Mortality
Results -- Geographic Patterns for Cancer of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Other Biliary Tract
These sites did not have separate ICD codes until 1958, so that the three sites
are grouped together for both time periods and then considered separately for
the recent time period 1970–94. Included with primary liver cancers are tumors
not stated to be primary in the liver, but excluded are those stated as secondary
or metastatic. In the combined categories of liver, gallbladder, and other
biliary tract cancers, the rates among white males were elevated during both
periods in several Appalachian areas and in southern Louisiana and Texas. High
rates among white females were prominent in the midwestern and north-central
areas as well as in Appalachia, south Texas, and New Mexico. Rates among blacks
were higher in northern urban areas and generally low across the Southeast.
Suggested Citation
Devesa SS, Grauman DG, Blot WJ, Pennello G, Hoover RN, Fraumeni JF Jr. Atlas of cancer
mortality in the United States, 1950-94. Washington, DC: US Govt Print Off; 1999 [NIH Publ No.
(NIH) 99-4564].
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