In comparison to the United States as a whole and to their total population age-adjusted rates, the New Jersey-New York-Philadelphia Metropolitan Region was found to have excessively high childhood leukemia and high young adult Hodgkin's disease and lymphoma cancer mortality rates in the period from 1950 to 1969.

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The research was supported by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Grant EPA R805526010).

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