. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 15.

Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2019 Nov 12;126(4):792–799. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32607

Table 2:

Rural versus urban NETs incidence from years 1973–2015, differentiating based on the disease spread pattern

Years		1973–1975	1976–1985	1986–1995	1996–2005	2006–2015
Rural	Localized	9 (23%)	54 (25%)	204 (49%)	879 (63%)	1,918 (68%)
	Regional	16 (41%)	81 (38%)	107 (25%)	295 (21%)	518 (18%)
	Distant	14 (36%)	79 (37%)	108(26%)	231 (16%)	384 (14%)
Urban	Localized	112 (36%)	356 (28%)	2,183 (59%)	8,244 (66%)	16,946 (71%)
	Regional	84 (27%)	441 (34%)	795 (21%)	2,325 (19%)	4,096 (17%)
	Distant	116(37%)	490(38%)	746 (20%)	1,865 (15%)	2,782 (12%)