Average age of parents when child is born?
>> Some experts suggested that could mean there is better access to care in the urban centers of the Northeast, leading to more diagnoses... Dr. Rafael Ducos... said the South’s low rates were perplexing and might simply reflect under-reporting there and over-reporting in other regions.
I certainly don’t know the answer either, but I don’t buy “under-reporting”.
Under-reporting is a factor only if the cancer is NEVER diagnosed and goes away on its own. But cancer being what it is, if undiagnosed it WILL manifest sooner or later.
Under-reporting might be a factor in cancer (or any disease) in an older population, some of whom die of other causes before the cancer manifests. That is highly unlikely in children.
I was going to say: I would expect kids in the South get more exposure to sunlight, so they have higher Vitamin D levels.
Need Cod Liver Oil....and Vitamin D supplements....