Colon Carcinoma Incidence Measured By SEER-17 Network In 2000 (IMAGE)

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Colon Carcinoma Incidence Measured By SEER-17 Network In 2000

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The age-specific incidence of colon carcinoma, as measured by the SEER-17 network of cancer registries in 2000, is plotted along with the best fit Weibull distribution for 100% of the population and for 11.8% of the population on the left. Both distributions were fit to data from ages 0 to 85 years of age, and then data from 86󈟏 years of age were plotted. The data is clearly consistent with the 11.8% curve, but not the 100% curve. The plot on the right is a detail of the outlined section of the plot on the left.

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Professor James P. Brody of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine

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