Table 1.
Age-adjusted incidence rate (per 100,000 person-years, standardized to the 2000 U.S. population), with 95% CI, of site-specific head and neck cancers in men (upper) and women (lower) by race/ethnicity and primary tumor site in California, 1988–2004.
| Larynx |
Oropharynx |
Hypopharynx |
Oral cavity |
All HNC |
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| Race/Ethnicity | Rate (95% CI) | No. cases | Rate (95% CI) | No. cases | Rate (95% CI) | No. cases | Rate (95% CI) | No. cases | Rate (95% CI) | No. cases |
| Male | ||||||||||
| Vietnamese | 6.5 (5.0–8.2) | 89 | 1.9 (1.3–2.6) | 37 | 1.7 (1.0–2.6) | 23 | 4.3 (3.3–5.5) | 81 | 14.3 (12.2–16.6) | 230 |
| Chinese | 3.2* (2.2–3.7) | 188 | 0.8 (0.6–1.1)* | 53 | 0.8 (0.6–1.0) | 49 | 3.3 (2.9–3.8) | 203 | 8.1* (7.4–8.9) | 493 |
| Japanese | 2.6* (2.0–3.2) | 73 | 0.9 (0.6–1.4) | 26 | 0.7 (0.4–1.0) | 20 | 3.3 (2.7–4.1) | 93 | 7.5* (6.5–8.6) | 212 |
| Filipino | 3* (2.5–3.5) | 146 | 1.1 (0.9–1.4) | 60 | 0.4* (0.3–0.7) | 22 | 2.6* (2.2–3.1) | 130 | 7.1* (6.4–7.9) | 358 |
| Korean | 5.1 (3.9–6.4) | 82 | 1.7 (1.1–2.4) | 31 | 1.3 (0.7–2.0) | 19 | 3.8 (2.8–5.1) | 59 | 11.8 (10.1–13.8) | 191 |
| South Asian | 3.8* (2.6–5.4) | 40 | – | 7 | – | 10 | 5.3 (3.9–6.9) | 76 | 10.5* (8.5–12.8) | 133 |
| NH white | 7.1 (7.0–7.4) | 10,344 | 3* (2.9–3.1) | 4,436 | 1.5 (1.5–1.6) | 2,236 | 8.5* (8.3–8.6) | 12,323 | 20.1* (19.9–20.4) | 29,339 |
| NH black | 11.4* (10.7–12.0) | 1,337 | 3.8* (3.5–4.2) | 493 | 2.5 (2.2–2.8) | 293 | 9.6* (9.0–10.2) | 1,200 | 27.3* (26.3–28.4) | 3,323 |
| Hispanic | 5.4 (5.1–5.7) | 1,607 | 1.7 (1.6–1.9) | 618 | 1.2 (1.1–1.3) | 354 | 4.3 (4.0–4.5) | 1,438 | 12.5 (12.1–13.0) | 4,017 |
| Female | ||||||||||
| Vietnamese | – | 6 | 0.6 (0.3–1.0) | 17 | – | 2 | 2.8 (2.0–3.7) | 49 | 3.7 (2.4–4.8) | 74 |
| Chinese | 0.3 (0.2–0.4) | 21 | 0.2 (0.1–0.4) | 17 | – | 3 | 2.3 (1.9–2.6) | 167 | 2.8 (2.4–3.2) | 208 |
| Japanese | 0.3 (0.2–0.6) | 15 | – | 11 | – | 8 | 2.8 (2.2–3.4) | 106 | 3.6 (3.0–4.2) | 140 |
| Filipino | 0.4 (0.2–0.6) | 26 | 0.5 (0.4–0.6) | 32 | – | 6 | 2.7 (2.3–3.1) | 174 | 3.7 (3.2–4.2) | 238 |
| Korean | – | 13 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1.3* (0.9–1.9) | 33 | 2.2 (1.6–2.8) | 52 |
| South Asian | – | 6 | – | 5 | – | 6 | 4.4 (3.2–5.9) | 55 | 6.1* (4.6–7.9) | 72 |
| NH white | 1.6 (1.6–1.7) | 2,803 | 1.0 (1.0–1.1) | 1,754 | 0.5 (0.4–0.5) | 832 | 4.4* (4.3–4.5) | 7,845 | 7.5* (7.4–7.6) | 13,234 |
| NH black | 2.3 (2.1–2.6) | 355 | 1.0 (0.9–1.2) | 155 | 0.4 (0.3–0.6) | 68 | 3.3 (3.1–3.6) | 520 | 7.1* (6.7–7.6) | 1,098 |
| Hispanic | 0.7 (0.6–0.8) | 291 | 0.4 (0.3–0.5) | 149 | 0.2 (0.1–0.2) | 59 | 2.3 (2.1–2.4) | 890 | 3.5 (3.3–3.7) | 1,389 |
Abbreviations: HNC, head and neck cancer; NH: non-Hispanic.
– Number too small for accurate rate calculation. In accordance with CCR policy, rates were not calculated when there were fewer than 15 cases.
*
The difference was statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) when compared with the Vietnamese group.