National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database

We used the SEER Program (www.seer.cancer.gov) SEER*Stat Database: Incidence – SEER 13 Regs Research Data, Nov 2014 Sub (1992–2012) <Katrina/Rita Population Adjustment> linked to County Attributes – Total U.S., 1969–2013 Counties, National Cancer Institute, DCCPS, Surveillance Research Program, Surveillance Systems Branch, released April 2015, based on November 2014 submission. The SEER database collects and maintains high-quality cancer data from hospitals and cancer treatment centers from the United States (US) with a 98% completeness rate. The SEER 13 database covers approximately 13.4% of the US population (2010 census) with a total of 4,057,213 tumors from 13 geographic areas: San Francisco-Oakland, Connecticut, Detroit (Metropolitan), Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle (Puget Sound), Utah, Atlanta (Metropolitan), San Jose-Monterey, Los Angeles, Alaska Natives and Rural Georgia.

The event variable was “Site recode B ICD-O-3/WHO 2008.”