Table 4.
Top five age-adjusted cancer rates and 95% CI for non-Hispanic white men and women, 1998–2002
| Rank |
Men | Women | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate | (95% CI) | Rate | (95% CI) | |||
| Incidencea | ||||||
| All cancers | 587.0 | (585.6, 588.5) | All cancers | 448.5 | (447.3, 449.6) | |
| 1 | Prostate | 170.0 | (169.3, 170.8) | Breast | 145.2 | (144.5, 145.8) |
| 2 | Lung | 89.2 | (88.7, 89.8) | Lung | 59.0 | (58.6, 59.4) |
| 3 | Colorectum | 65.6 | (65.2, 66.1) | Colorectum | 47.6 | (47.2, 47.9) |
| 4 | Bladder | 43.0 | (42.6, 43.4) | Endometrium | 26.0 | (25.7, 26.2) |
| 5 | Melanoma | 29.3 | (29.0, 29.6) | Melanoma | 19.3 | (19.0, 19.5) |
| Mortalityb | ||||||
| All cancers | 241.3 | (240.5, 242.1) | All cancers | 171.7 | (171.1, 172.2) | |
| 1 | Lung | 72.2 | (71.8, 72.7) | Lung | 44.5 | (44.2, 44.8) |
| 2 | Prostate | 27.7 | (27.4, 28.0) | Breast | 27.8 | (27.5, 28.0) |
| 3 | Colorectum | 24.6 | (24.3, 24.8) | Colorectum | 17.3 | (17.1, 17.5) |
| 4 | Pancreas | 12.6 | (12.4, 12.8) | Ovary | 9.8 | (9.7, 9.9) |
| 5 | Non-Hodgkin | 10.6 | (10.5, 10.8) | Pancreas | 9.5 | (9.4, 9.6) |
aRates are average annual per 100,000 age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population for the following SEER areas: Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle/Puget Sound; and the states of California (registries for Los Angeles County, the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, and the rest of California), Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Utah
bRates are average annual per 100,000 age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population for the following States: California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington
Abbreviations: Lung = lung and bronchus; Endometrium = corpus uterus, NOS; Non-Hodgn = non-Hodgkin lymphoma