Table 2.
Cancer incidence and mortality rates in metropolitan versus non-metropolitan (rural) counties per 100,000 people per year, 2009–2013.
| Cancer type | Incidence | Mortality | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metro | Rural | Diff. | % diff. | p | Metro | Rural | Diff. | % diff. | p | |||||
| Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | Rate | SE | |||||||
| All cancers | 447.3 | 0.3 | 459.6 | 1.0 | 12.3 | 2.7% | <.001 | 165.8 | 0.1 | 181.7 | 0.3 | 15.9 | 9.6% | <.001 |
| Individual cancers | ||||||||||||||
| Cervical1 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 8.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 14.9% | <.001 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 13.0% | <.001 |
| Colorectal | 40.4 | 0.1 | 45.8 | 0.3 | 5.4 | 13.4% | <.001 | 14.7 | 0.0 | 17.0 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 15.6% | <.001 |
| Kidney | 15.4 | 0.1 | 17.2 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 11.7% | <.001 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 15.8% | <.001 |
| Lung and bronchus | 55.4 | 0.1 | 71.9 | 0.4 | 16.5 | 29.8% | <.001 | 44.4 | 0.1 | 53.4 | 0.1 | 9.0 | 20.3% | <.001 |
| Melanoma | 21.8 | 0.1 | 22.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 2.8% | 0.02 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 11.1% | <.001 |
| Oropharyngeal | 10.9 | 0.1 | 12.7 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 16.5% | <.001 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 16.7% | <.001 |
| Breast1 | 126.1 | 0.2 | 114.8 | 0.7 | −11.3 | −9.0% | <.001 | 21.5 | 0.1 | 21.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.99 |
| Liver | 8.6 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.1 | −1.9 | −22.1% | <.001 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 0.0 | −0.7 | −11.1% | <.001 |
| Thyroid | 14.10 | 0.10 | 12.30 | 0.20 | −1.8 | −12.8% | <.001 | 0.51 | 0.01 | 0.48 | 0.01 | 0.0 | −5.9% | 0.45 |
1
Measured among women only.
Note. Metro=metropolitan counties; Rural=non-metropolitan counties; SE=standard error; Diff.=absolute difference between rates (non-metropolitan minus metropolitan); % diff.=relative difference between rates (absolute difference divided by rate in metropolitan counties).