Poster session I Epidemiology 167 RACIAL / ETHNIC PATTERNS OF NK / T CELL LYMPHOMA IN CALIFORNIA : A POPULATION - BASED STUDY
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Patients and Methods: A total of 213 non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics and Asians/Pacific Islanders (APIs) diagnosed with NK/T cell lymphoma were identified in California Cancer Registry from 2001 to 2008. Eight of these patients were HIV positive. SEER*Stat software was used for age-adjusted incidence rates and Joinpoint Regression software was used to calculate the annual percent change (APC). Overall survival (OS) was determined by the Kaplan-Meier method and the Cox proportional hazards regression.
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