Table 1.

Geographic areas included in cancer incidence and mortality rates for each racial/ethnic group, 1998–2002

	Incidence rates												Mortality rates
	CAa	CT	HI	IA	KY	LA	NJ	NM	UT	Atlanta metro	Detroit metro	Seattle–Puget Soundb	CA, HI, IL, NJ, NY, TX, and WA
Asian Indian or Pakistanic	X	X	–d	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	2	X
Chinese	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	9	X
Filipino	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11	X
Guamanian	X	–e	X	–e	–e	–e	–e	–e	–e	–d	–d	6	X
Native Hawaiian			Xf										Xf
Japanese	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	9	X
Kampuchean	X	X	–e	–e	–e	–e	–e	–d	X	X	–d	6	–g
Korean	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10	X
Laotian	X	X	X	X	–e	X	–e	–e	X	X	X	4	–g
Samoan	X	–e	X	–e	–e	–e	–e	–e	X	–d	–d	5	X
Tongan	X	–d	X	–d	–d	–d	–d	–d	X	–d	–d	1e	–g
Vietnamese	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	6	X

X—Indicates area was included in rate calculations

^aIncludes cancer registries for Los Angeles, San Francisco/Oakland, San Jose/Monterey, and all remaining areas in California combined

^bIndicates number of counties within the 11-county Seattle–Puget Sound area for which population estimates were NOT suppressed by the Census Bureau; and thus could be included in the incidence analyses

^cIncidence rates calculated for combined group of Asian Indians & Pakistanis due to SEER program coding rules; mortality rates calculated only for Asian Indians due to NCHS coding rules

^dArea not included in rate calculation due to supression of population data by Census Bureau

^eArea not included in rate calculation due to small population size (<1,000); see materials and methods and Statistical analysis

^fNative Hawaiian rates calculated only for the state of Hawaii

^gMortality data not available from NCHS for these race/ethnic groups [3]