State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Connecticut by County

Prostate (All Stages^), 2014-2018

All Races (includes Hispanic), Male, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

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.

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC/APC:

• Rising when 95% confidence interval of AAPC/APC is above 0.
• Stable when 95% confidence interval of AAPC/APC includes 0.
• Falling when 95% confidence interval of AAPC/APC is below 0.

AAPC/APC (95% Confidence Interval) - the change in rate over time

• Average Annual Percent Change - AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program
• Annual Percent Change - APCs calculated in SEER*Stat.

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

Connecticut⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 114.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 112.4 to 116.4 and 2,560 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 3.3 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.6 to 8.6.

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 106.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 106.0 to 106.4 and 200,677 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 1.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.6 to 6.3.

Hartford County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 125.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 121.3 to 130.0 and 687 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 3)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 4.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.0 to 10.5.

Fairfield County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 123.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 118.8 to 127.3 and 677 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 3)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 6.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.5 to 16.8.

Tolland County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 117.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 107.2 to 127.7 and 109 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 5)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 3.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.4 to 9.5.

Windham County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 110.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 99.6 to 122.4 and 81 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (3, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.9 to -1.3.

New London County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 106.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 100.1 to 114.1 and 192 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (3, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.9 to -1.5.

Litchfield County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 104.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 96.6 to 112.1 and 151 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (4, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -4.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -7.3 to -1.3.

Middlesex County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 103.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 95.5 to 112.7 and 122 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (4, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 4.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.2 to 13.1.

New Haven County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 101.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 98.1 to 106.0 and 542 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (5, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 4.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.8 to 13.1.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/25/2022 10:47 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
† 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 1969-2018 US Population Data File is used for SEER and NPCR incidence rates.
Rates and trends are computed using different standards for malignancy. For more information see malignant.html.

^ All Stages refers to any stage in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) summary stage.

Source: SEER and NPCR data. For more specific information please see the table.

Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer incidence statistics. When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate.

Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

When displaying county information, the CI*Rank for the state is not shown because it's not comparable. To see the state CI*Rank please view the statistics at the US By State level.