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This monograph provides a concise description of the occurrence of the major cancers among several different racial/ethnic groups in the United States. The cancer experience among ethnic and racial groups varies widely across the world as well as here in the United States. The differences between groups may be related to a variety of factors including biology, heredity, and perhaps most important, behavior. The differences outlined in this monograph will help to identify clues to cancer causation as well as to ways of detecting these cancers early, treating them, and ultimately, preventing them.
This monograph was assembled through the work of Contributing          Editors from the SEER registries and the SEER staff. It was          published in 1996 by the Surveillance Research Program of        the NCI. The monograph is provided in PDF format.
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Racial/Ethnic Patterns Monograph(PDF, 671 KB)
Suggested Citation
Miller BA, Kolonel LN, Bernstein L, Young, Jr. JL, Swanson GM, West D, Key CR, Liff JM, Glover CS, Alexander GA, et al. (eds). *Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Cancer in the United States 1988-1992*, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 96-4104. Bethesda, MD, 1996. 
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Contributing EditorsEditor-in-Chief
Barry A. Miller, M.S.P.H.*Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute*
Contributing Editors
Laurence N. Kolonel, M.D., Ph.D. *Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii*

Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D. *Cancer Surveillance Program, University of Southern California, School of Medicine*

John L. Young, Dr.P.H. *California Cancer Registry, California Department of Health Services*

G. Marie Swanson, Ph.D. *Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine*

Dee W. West, Ph.D.*Northern California Cancer Center*

Charles R. Key, M.D., Ph.D.*New Mexico Tumor Registry, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine*

Jonathan M. Liff, Ph.D.*Georgia Center for Cancer Statistics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University*

Claudia S. Glover, M.H.S.                       George A. Alexander, M.D.*Surveillance Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute*
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