State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Arizona by County

Breast (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, All Ages

Sorted by Ruralurban

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of *** is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Incidence Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The incidence rate is based upon 100,000 people and is an annual rate (or average annual rate) based on the time period indicated. Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population.

Percent of Cases with Late Stage - This is the number of late stages cases compared to the number of cases for all stages.

Other Notes

• Larger confidence intervals indicate less stability of the data. This is often due to low counts that are not quite low enough to be suppressed.
• Data is currently being suppressed if there are fewer than 16 counts for the time period.

Line by Line Interpretation of the Report

Arizona⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.1 to 37.9 and 1,548 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.7

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.9 to 42.2 and 80,548 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.2

Cochise County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 26.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 21.5 to 32.9 and 22 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 14 (9, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 22.8

Coconino County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.1 to 42.3 and 25 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 9 (2, 13)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 30.7

Maricopa County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 38.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.9 to 39.2 and 940 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 5 (2, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 30.3

Mohave County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 38.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.3 to 44.1 and 59 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 4 (1, 11)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.8

Pima County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 33.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 31.0 to 35.3 and 213 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 11 (6, 13)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 25.7

Pinal County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 36.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 32.7 to 40.0 and 93 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 7 (3, 11)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 30.9

Yavapai County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.9 to 48.5 and 80 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 1 (1, 7)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 28.0

Yuma County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 41.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 35.9 to 47.5 and 46 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 2 (1, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 36.3

Apache County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 30.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 22.4 to 40.2 and 11 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 12 (2, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 42.0

Gila County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.1 to 46.8 and 13 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 10 (1, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 34.1

Graham County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 36.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.6 to 51.3 and 7 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 6 (1, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 39.4

La Paz County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 23.6 to 64.1 and 5 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 3 (1, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 42.6

Navajo County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.0 to 43.5 and 23 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 8 (1, 13)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 36.7

Santa Cruz County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 28.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 20.1 to 39.7 and 8 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 13 (3, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 27.0

Greenlee County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : * Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).
• CI*Rank ⋔ : *
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : *

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 12/02/2024 6:31 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.

Data cannot be shown for the following areas. For more information on what areas are suppressed or not available, please refer to the table.
Greenlee

† Incidence rates (cases per 100,000 population per year) are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). Rates are for invasive cancer only (except for bladder cancer which is invasive and in situ) or unless otherwise specified. Rates calculated using SEER*Stat. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The US Population Data File is used for SEER and NPCR incidence rates.

Rates are computed using cancers classified as malignant based on ICD-O-3. For more information see malignant.html.

^ Late Stage is defined as cases determined to be regional or distant. Due to changes in stage coding, Combined Summary Stage (2004+) is used for data from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) databases and Merged Summary Stage is used for data from National Program of Cancer Registries databases. Due to the increased complexity with staging, other staging variables maybe used if necessary.
Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).
Source: SEER and NPCR data. For more specific information please see the table.

Data for the United States does not include data from Indiana.
Data for the United States does not include Puerto Rico.