State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Hampshire by County

Lung & Bronchus (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Percentlate

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

New Hampshire⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Rate : The incidence rate is 38.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.8 to 39.4 and 756 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.6

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.2 to 34.4 and 140,561 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.9

Coos County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 28.8 to 43.8 and 20 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 9 (2, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 61.4

Sullivan County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 35.8 to 50.2 and 31 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 2 (1, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 62.8

Grafton County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 33.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.0 to 38.1 and 47 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 10 (5, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.7

Rockingham County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 36.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.3 to 39.6 and 168 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 8 (3, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.0

Hillsborough County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 35.1 to 39.9 and 203 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 6 (3, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.2

Strafford County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.0 to 51.9 and 75 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 1 (1, 3)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.6

Carroll County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 38.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.2 to 45.2 and 39 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 5 (2, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.9

Belknap County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.0 to 45.2 and 43 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 4 (2, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.8

Merrimack County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.8 to 41.3 and 83 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 7 (2, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.7

Cheshire County⁶

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Rural
• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.2 to 45.0 and 46 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 3 (1, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 67.8

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 10/12/2024 8:48 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 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.
⋔ Results presented with the CI*Rank statistics help show the usefulness of ranks. For example, ranks for relatively rare diseases or less populated areas may be essentially meaningless because of their large variability, but ranks for more common diseases in densely populated regions can be very useful. More information about methodology can be found on the CI*Rank website.

Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.
¹ Source: National Program of Cancer Registries and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results SEER*Stat Database - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute. Based on the 2023 submission.
⁶ Source: National Program of Cancer Registries SEER*Stat Database - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (based on the 2023 submission).

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