Table 1.

Cancer incidence in the U.S. active-duty military population and the SEER program for breast, lung, prostate, colorectal, testicular, and cervical cancers, ages 20-59, 1990-2004, by race and gender.

	ACTUR1						SEER2						ACTUR:SEER
	Whites			Blacks			Whites			Blacks			Whites		Blacks
Cancer site	Count	Rate3	Rate 95%CI4	Count	Rate3	Rate 95%CI4	Count	Rate3	Rate 95%CI4	Count	Rate3	Rate 95%CI4	IRR5	IRR 95%CI	IRR5	IRR 95%CI
Men
Colorectum	513	3.49	3.19-3.80	146	4.89	4.06-5.83	17642	4.22	4.09-4.35	2693	5.31	4.95-5.68	0.83	0.75-0.91	0.92	0.75-1.11
Lung	277	1.85	1.63-2.08	70	2.49	1.91-3.20	20682	3.17	3.08-3.27	4957	7.21	6.83-7.60	0.58	0.51-0.66	0.35	0.26-0.45
Prostate	689	4.32	4.00-4.65	221	10.02	8.64-11.57	35175	2.03	1.99-2.08	7576	4.80	4.60-5.01	2.12	1.95-2.30	2.09	1.77-2.43
Testis	1756	12.63	12.05-13.23	70	1.97	1.54-2.50	9318	13.11	12.79-13.43	243	2.17	1.87-2.52	0.96	0.91-1.02	0.91	0.67-1.21
Women
Colorectum	49	3.26	2.41-4.31	30	4.52	3.01-6.52	13051	3.41	3.29-3.53	2706	5.03	4.69-5.39	0.96	0.69-1.27	0.90	0.58-1.31
Lung	30	1.99	1.34-2.84	25	4.70	2.78-7.33	17413	2.89	2.80-2.99	3031	4.27	3.99-4.56	0.69	0.45-0.98	1.10	0.62-1.73
Breast	543	36.44	33.43-39.64	321	45.87	40.65-51.61	95058	30.62	30.29-30.96	12543	33.41	32.54-34.31	1.19	1.09-1.30	1.37	1.21-1.55
Cervical	113	7.31	6.02-8.80	30	3.42	2.30-4.90	9308	7.92	7.70-8.14	1732	7.97	7.47-8.49	0.92	0.75-1.11	0.43	0.28-0.62

¹ACTUR, Automated Central Tumor Registry.

²SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results.

³Rates are per 100,000 person-years and age-adjusted to active-duty military population aged 20-59.

⁴Confidence interval.

⁵Incidence rate ratio.