Annual cancer incidence rates (per million) among children and adolescents aged 0–19 years by geographic regions and International Classification of Childhood Cancer Version 3 group, Taiwan (1995–2009).

Abbreviations: ASRs, age-standardized incidence rates; CI, confidence interval; ICCC-3, International Classification of Childhood Cancer Version 3.
Data include malignant tumors only.
$ Counties of Kinmen and Lienchiang (offshore islands) were included in Eastern region for statistical analysis.
* ASRs are per million person-years and were age adjusted to the 2000 world standard population.
++ Significantly higher than for the remaining area of Taiwan, standardized rate ratio (SRR) = 1.06 (95% CI, 1.02–1.10), P<0.01.
− Significantly lower than for the remaining area of Taiwan, SRR = 0.61 (95% CI, 0.38–0.98), P<0.05.
– Indicates that there were fewer than 10 cases, and the statistic is not displayed in order to avoid presenting unstable data.
Annual cancer incidence rates (per million) among children and adolescents aged 0–19 years by geographic regions and International Classification of Childhood Cancer Version 3 group, Taiwan (1995–2009).