Table 8.

Physician office visits for prostate cancer listed as primary diagnosis 1992–2000 ²⁰

	Count	5-Yr Rate (95% CI)*	Av Annualized Rate/Yr	5-Yr Age Adjusted Rate†
Totals ‡	12,236,564	25,004 (22,810–27,198)	5001	25,034
Age:
40–64	2,118,240	5930 (4,647–7,212)	1186
65–74	4,399,702	54,445 (46,664–62,226)	10,889
75–84	4,739,092	112,069 (95,718–128,421)	22,414
85+	979,530	108,031 (79,820–136,242)	21,606
Race/ethnicity:
White	10,498,163	26,644 (24,119–29,170)	5329	25,313
Other	1,738,401	18,227 (14,001–22,452)	3645	23,366
Region:
Midwest	2,906,931	25,262 (20,840–29,683)	5052	25,086
Northeast	3,718,177	37,425 (31,362–43,488)	7485	36,556
South	3,187,693	18,669 (15,599–21,740)	3734	18,435
West	2,423,763	23,256 (18,398–28,114)	4651	24,738
MSA:
MSA	10,498,173	28,760 (25,998–31,522)	5752	28,935
Non-MSA	1,738,391	13,979 (11,014–16,943)	2796	13,835

^*Rate per 100,000 is based on 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 population estimates from Current Population Survey and Utilities, Unicon Research Corporation, for relevant demographic categories of United States male civilian non-institutionalized population.

^†Grouped years age adjusted to the U.S. Census derived age distribution of the midpoint of years; individual years age adjusted to the U.S. Census derived age distribution of the year under analysis.

^‡Includes persons of missing or unavailable race and ethnicity, and missing MSA.

SOURCE: NAMCS.