Rates Of Ocular Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Have Increased, Study Finds
Incidence of ocular non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the eye and nearby organs, is increasing rapidly and has shown no signs of peaking, a new study reports.
Roxana Moslehi, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues assessed the incidence of ocular non-Hodgkin lymphoma using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.
The authors found that the incidence of ocular non-Hodgkin lymphoma increased from 1975 to 2001 at 6.2% per year among white men and 6.5% per year among white women. Rates during 1992-2001 were highest among Asians and Pacific Islanders, followed by whites, while blacks had the lowest rates.
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