@article{1191ed07de4b4859bcb754b956a7481a,
title = "A time-series comparison of cancer mortality rates in the New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia metropolitan region and the remainder of the United States, 1950-1969",
abstract = "Cancer mortaiity trends from 1950 to 1969 were studied for the New Jersey-New York-Philadeiphia metropolitan region and the remainder of the United States for 65 age- sex- and race-standardized causes. Using total population, age-adjusted rates for the years 1950-1954, 1955-1959, 1960-1964 and 1965-1969, the findings show a strong tendency for the region and the remainder of the nation to be moving toward similar mortality patterns. White and nonwhite male rates in the remainder of the nation are rapidly catching up to the study region's rates. Female rates are converging, although less rapidly.",
keywords = "Cancer, Mortality",
author = "Michael Greenberg and Frank Mckay and Paul White",
note = "Funding Information: Received for publication March 19, 1979, and in final form June 26, 1979. Abbreviation: RON, remainder of the nation (other than the New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia metropolitan region). 1Department of Urban Studies, Livingston College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. (Reprint requests to Dr. Greenberg.) 1National Institute of Health and National Cance3 r Institute, Bethesda, MD. Toxic Substances Program, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ. Supported by the Toxic Substances Program, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; United States Environmental Protection Agency, Grant No. EPA R805526010. The authors thank Dr. Peter Preuss, Dr. Judy Louis, and Dr. Sidney Gray of the Toxic Substances Program, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and Dr. Lynne B. Harrison of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, for their helpful comments. Gwendolyn Greenberg prepared the graphics.",
year = "1980",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112884",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "111",
pages = "166--174",
journal = "American Journal of Epidemiology",
issn = "0002-9262",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "2",
}