Table 1. Average frequencies and crude rates for three breast cancer indicators in nine SEER areas, 1988–2008.

	# of	Early-stage incidence		Advanced-stage incidence		Mortality
Area	counties	Frequency	Rate†	Frequency	Rate	Frequency	Rate
San Francisco	5	31,003	164.3	23,054	122.1	9,032	47.9
Connecticut	8	30,138	176.0	20,912	122.1	9,357	54.7
Atlanta	5	16,345	142.9	12,975	113.4	4,787	41.9
Hawaii	5	9,231	166.5	5,920	106.8	1,841	33.2
Iowa	99	22,101	153.7	17,182	119.5	7,777	54.1
Detroit	3	29,867	155.9	24,295	126.8	11,144	58.2
New Mexico	33	9,697	123.5	8,190	104.3	3,324	42.4
Utah	29	9,610	128.3	7,964	106.3	2,963	39.5
Seattle	13	31,582	176.4	21,846	122.0	7,458	41.7
Total	200	189,574	155.9	142,338	119.5	57,683	42.4

^†Median of county-year-age-race specific standardized crude rate (per 100,000 women).