{"id":3583,"date":"2017-05-08T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2017-05-08T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:14:51","slug":"quickstats-brain-cancer-death-rates-among-children-and-teens-aged-1-19-years-by-sex-and-age-group-united-states-2013-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/05\/08\/3583\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICKSTATS: Brain Cancer Death Rates Among Children and Teens Aged 1\u201319 Years by Sex and Age Group \u2014 United States, 2013\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6617a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6617qsf.gif\" width=\"442\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The death rate for brain cancer, the most common cancer cause of death for children and teens aged 1\u201319 years, was 24% higher in males (0.73 per 100,000) than females (0.59) aged 1\u201319 years during 2013\u20132015.<\/p>\n<p>Death rates were higher for males than females for all age groups, but the difference did not reach statistical significance for the age group 5\u20139 years.<\/p>\n<p>Death rates caused by brain cancer were highest at ages 5\u20139 years (0.98 for males and 0.85 for females).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6617a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6617a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death rate for brain cancer, the most common cancer cause of death for children and teens aged 1\u201319 years, was 24% higher in males (0.73 per 100,000) than females (0.59) aged 1\u201319 years during 2013\u20132015. Death rates were higher for males than females for all age groups, but the difference did not reach statistical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10559,14289,63673,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}