Neoplasms in the Navy, 1998-2000: A Descriptive Analysis of the Physical Evaluation Board Database

From: Military Medicine | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Bohnker, Bruce; Malakooti, Mark A; Riegodedios, Asha; Sack, David M; Ajene, Anuli | Copyright information

Records with diagnoses for neoplasms (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification, codes 140-239) contained in the U.S. Navy Physical Evaluation Board database for 1998 to 2000 were identified (n = 427 cases, 342 malignant and 85 benign). The four most common sites of occurrence were other and unspecified sites (27%), lymphatic and hematopoietic tissues (22%), benign neoplasms (20%), and genitourinary organs (12%). Crude overall cancer rates were 37.7 cases...

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