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Cancer Site

Includes detailed coding of responses to questions of the form “In which organ or part of your body did your cancer(s) start?”, which are masked in certain public releases. One data set containing cancer site variables are included in this restricted data release. Cancer site variables for the other years – 1992, 1993, 1994 Core/Exit, and 1996 Exit – are included in the publicly released data.

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