TABLE 3.

—Cancer Mortality and Trends for White and Minority Women

	All Sites	Breast Cancer	Lung Cancer	Colorectal Cancer	Cervical Cancer	Trends and Comments
White	138.0	24.3	34.6	13.9	2.4	Decrease in breast and colorectal; increase in lung cancer
Mexican Americana	98.5	16.4	10.1	11.1	3.6	NA; may not be comparable to other groups shown
Hispanica	84.3	14.8	10.9	8.0	3.3	Little change overall
African American	166.6	31.0	33.6	19.6	5.7	Increase in lung; slight decreases in others
Asian and Pacific Islander	82.4	11.0	15.1	8.9	2.7	No overall mortality change
Native Hawaiianb	168.0	25.0	44.1	11.4	NA	May not be comparable to other groups shown
American Indianc	87.7	12.0	20.1	8.2	2.9	Recent data derived from more sites than earlier data
Alaska Natived	181.4	21.5	44.2	30.4	3.1	Increase in breast and colorectal; decrease in cervical cancer mortality

Note. NA = not available. Rates per 100 000 women, for 1992–1998, unless otherwise noted. Age-adjusted to the 1970 US standard population. Population-based incidence data are unavailable for Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and American Samoan women.

Source. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the National Cancer Institute.15

^aData from Horm report on New Mexico Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Registry. Hispanic data is for all Hispanic ethnicity groups combined.

^bData for 1988–1992 from Miller et al.2; unavailable for more recent period.

^cData for American Indian women derived from American Indian and Alaska Natives in 11 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results areas (Alaska excluded).

^dData for Alaska Native women derived from American Indian and Alaska Natives in the state of Alaska.