Table 2.
Age-adjusted incidence and mortality of pancreatic cancer by sex, age group, and period: Puerto Rico, 2001–2015
| Sex | Age group | INCIDENCE |
MORTALITY |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001–2005 |
2006–2010 |
2011–2015 |
2001–2005 |
2006–2010 |
2011–2015 |
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| Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | Rate | Count | ||
| Male | ≤ 64 years | 1.9 | 159 | 2.5 | 219 | 3.5 | 301 | 1.8 | 148 | 2.0 | 177 | 2.6 | 232 |
| ≥ 65 years | 36.1 | 343 | 36.6 | 400 | 48.5 | 612 | 41.7 | 390 | 35.6 | 379 | 44.8 | 556 | |
| Overall* | 6.3 | 502 | 6.8 | 619 | 9.2 | 913 | 6.8 | 538 | 6.2 | 556 | 7.9 | 788 | |
| Female | ≤ 64 years | 1.2 | 113 | 1.7 | 171 | 2.2 | 217 | 1.0 | 96 | 1.2 | 127 | 1.5 | 153 |
| ≥ 65 years | 28.6 | 362 | 30.9 | 441 | 38 | 623 | 30.3 | 384 | 31.3 | 447 | 35.2 | 573 | |
| Overall* | 4.7 | 475 | 5.4 | 612 | 6.7 | 840 | 4.7 | 480 | 5.0 | 574 | 5.8 | 726 | |
| Overall | ≤ 64 years | 1.5 | 272 | 2.1 | 390 | 2.8 | 518 | 1.4 | 244 | 1.6 | 304 | 2.0 | 385 |
| ≥ 65 years | 31.9 | 705 | 33.5 | 841 | 42.7 | 1,235 | 35.1 | 774 | 33.2 | 826 | 39.5 | 1,129 | |
| Overall* | 5.4 | 977 | 6.0 | 1,231 | 7.8 | 1,753 | 5.6 | 1,018 | 5.6 | 1,130 | 6.7 | 1,514 | |
Rates are per 100,000 and age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups - Census P25–1130). Incidence Data Source: Incidence case files of Puerto Rico from the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry (August 14, 2018). Mortality Data Source: Mortality case files provided by the Demographic Registry of Puerto Rico (October, 2017). Population Source: Vintage 2016 estimate series from the population division of the United States Census Bureau.
Data include known and unknown age.