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Incidence and Mortality Rates* by Site, Race, and Ethnicity, US, 1990-1997

TABLE 11

CA Cancer J Clin 2001;51:33



  White Black Asian/
Pacific
Islander
American
Indian
Hispanic**

Incidence
All Sites
Total 402.1 444.6 279.3 152.8 272.9
Males 476.3 597.9 323.5 175.9 323.2
Females 352.4 337.4 246.9 137.3 240.9
Breast (Female) 114.0 100.2 74.6 33.4 68.9
Colon & Rectum
Total 43.6 50.7 38.1 16.3 28.8
Males 52.7 58.3 47.2 20.4 35.7
Females 36.6 45.2 30.9 13.1 23.6
Lung & Bronchus
Total 55.4 73.3 35.5 18.4 27.1
Males 71.9 111.1 51.9 25.1 38.0
Females 43.3 45.8 22.5 13.3 19.4
Prostate 145.8 225.0 80.4 45.8 101.6

Mortality

All Sites          
Total 166.5 221.9 102.3 104.5 104.0
Males 207.0 305.5 127.2 124.6 130.6
Females 139.1 167.7 83.0 90.0 85.6
Breast (Female) 25.3 31.4 11.2 12.1 15.1
Colon & Rectum
Total 17.2 23.0 10.8 10.1 10.3
Males 21.3 27.7 13.1 11.6 13.1
Females 14.3 19.9 8.9 8.9 8.3
Lung & Bronchus
Total 49.1 60.1 23.4 29.0 19.8
Males 69.5 99.5 34.2 40.9 31.6
Females 34.0 33.0 14.9 19.8 11.0
Prostate 23.3 54.1 10.4 14.2 16.2

*Rates are per 100,000 and are age-adjusted to the 1970 US standard population.
Hispanic is not mutually exclusive from white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, or American Indian.

Note: Incidence data are from the 11 SEER areas; mortality data are from all states except data for Hispanics exclude deaths from Connecticut, Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma.

Data Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences,
National Cancer Institute, 2000. Mortality derived by SEER from data originating from the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2000.




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