Table 1.
Distribution of total population and incident cases of invasive breast, cervical, and lung cancer*, Massachusetts, 2010–2014
| Site-specific cancer incidence cases |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total population | Breast (women only) | Cervical | Lung | |
| Total, No. (%) | 6 540 189 | 28 152 (100.0) | 958 (100.0) | 24 372 (100.0) |
| Age, y | ||||
| Continuous, mean (SD) | 39.7 (22.7) | 62.4 (13.9) | 52.7 (15.7) | 70.2 (11.3) |
| Categorical, No. (%), y | ||||
| <5 | 349 670 (5.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | <5 (<0.1) |
| 5–14 | 757 475 (11.6) | <5 (<0.1) | 0 (0.0) | <5 (<0.1) |
| 15–24 | 925 794 (14.2) | 23 (0.1) | 7 (0.7) | 21 (0.1) |
| 25–34 | 875 309 (13.4) | 432 (1.5) | 110 (11.5) | 32 (0.1) |
| 35–44 | 844 979 (12.9) | 2336 (8.3) | 217 (22.7) | 284 (1.2) |
| 45–54 | 991 625 (15.2) | 5972 (21.2) | 217 (22.7) | 1907 (7.8) |
| 55–64 | 843 510 (12.9) | 6990 (24.8) | 187 (19.5) | 5086 (20.9) |
| 65–74 | 505 744 (7.7) | 6514 (23.1) | 117 (12.2) | 7791 (32.0) |
| 75–84 | 296 445 (4.5) | 4168 (14.8) | 71 (7.4) | 6835 (28.0) |
| 85+ | 149 638 (2.3) | 1716 (6.1) | 32 (3.3) | 2413 (9.9) |
| Unknown)† | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Gender, No. (%) | ||||
| Women | 3 166 730 (48.4) | 28 152 (100.0) | 958 (100.0) | 12 802 (52.5) |
| Men | 3 373 459 (51.6) | N/A | N/A | 11 569 (47.5) |
| Unknown† | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | <5 (<0.1) |
| Race/ethnicity, No. (%) | ||||
| White non-Hispanic | 4 992 644 (76.3) | 24 845 (88.7) | 692 (73.0) | 22 220 (91.4) |
| Black non-Hispanic | 465 792 (7.1) | 1290 (4.6) | 91 (9.6) | 973 (4.0) |
| Hispanic | 681 824 (10.4) | 1034 (3.7) | 100 (10.6) | 514 (2.1) |
| Asian and Pacific Islander non-Hispanic | 386 287 (5.9) | 810 (2.9) | 64 (6.8) | 573 (2.4) |
| American Indian/Alaska Native non-Hispanic | 13 642 (0.2) | 23 (0.1) | <5 (<0.1) | 24 (0.1) |
| Unknown† | 0 (0.0) | 150 (0.5) | 10 (0.1) | 68 (0.3) |
| Urbanicity, No. (%) | ||||
| Large metro | 4 688 217 (71.7) | 19 479 (71.1) | 667 (71.6) | 16 703 (70.3) |
| Small and medium metro | 1 755 449 (26.8) | 7541 (27.5) | 251 (26.9) | 6706 (28.2) |
| Nonmetro | 96 523 (1.5) | 390 (1.4) | 14 (1.5) | 337 (1.4) |
| Unknown† | 0 (0.0) | 742 (2.6) | 26 (2.7) | 626 (2.6) |
| City/town characteristics | ||||
| City/town, No. (%) | 313 (100) | |||
| Unknown | 742 (2.6) | 26 (2.7) | 626 (2.6) | |
| City/town, mean (SD), ICE | ||||
| ICE: income | 0.15 (0.18) | 0.11 (0.19) | 0.03 (0.18) | 0.07 (0.18) |
| ICE: race/ethnicity | 0.85 (0.15) | 0.73 (0.24) | 0.64 (0.28) | 0.71 (0.25) |
| ICE: race/ethnicity + income | 0.24 (0.13) | 0.21 (0.13) | 0.16 (0.12) | 0.18 (0.12) |
| City/town, mean (SD), % below poverty | 7.6 (5.2) | 10.4 (7.2) | 13.1 (8.0) | 11.3 (7.3) |
| Census tract characteristics | ||||
| CT, No. (%) | 1478 (100) | |||
| Unknown | 742 (2.6) | 26 (2.7) | 626 (2.6) | |
| CT, mean (SD), ICE | ||||
| ICE: income | 0.06 (0.25) | 0.12 (0.23) | 0.01 (0.24) | 0.07 (0.22) |
| ICE: race/ethnicity | 0.67 (0.34) | 0.74 (0.29) | 0.61 (0.37) | 0.72 (0.30) |
| ICE: race/ethnicity + income | 0.18 (0.17) | 0.22 (0.16) | 0.14 (0.16) | 0.18 (0.15) |
| CT, mean (SD), % below poverty | 12.9 (12.1) | 9.7 (9.2) | 14.2 (12.4) | 11.0 (9.9) |
*
Includes invasive cancers only. CT = census tract; ICE = Index of Concentration at the Extremes; N/A = not applicable.
†
Percent missing based on total; otherwise, distributions are based on observed cases only.