State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Hampshire by County

All Cancer Sites (All Stages^), 2014-2018

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages <65

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

New Hampshire⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 239.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 236.0 to 243.3 and 3,699 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.5 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.8 to -0.3.

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 227.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 227.4 to 227.9 and 750,329 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.7 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.8 to 0.5.

Sullivan County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 254.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 234.1 to 277.1 and 131 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.9 to 0.9.

Belknap County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 254.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 236.9 to 272.8 and 190 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.3 to 0.6.

Coos County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 251.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 228.3 to 277.5 and 101 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.8 to 1.2.

Strafford County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 247.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 235.0 to 260.4 and 324 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.3 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.2 to 0.6.

Merrimack County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 246.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 235.3 to 257.9 and 420 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (1, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.0 to 0.3.

Rockingham County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 242.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 234.5 to 249.8 and 888 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (2, 8)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.2 to -0.4.

Hillsborough County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 234.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 227.6 to 240.7 and 1,084 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (5, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.7 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.0 to -0.4.

Carroll County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 230.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 210.9 to 251.7 and 135 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (2, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.9 to 1.7.

Cheshire County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 229.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 213.9 to 245.6 and 193 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (4, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.0 to 0.9.

Grafton County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 227.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 213.7 to 242.7 and 231 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (5, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.8 to -0.3.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 08/16/2022 4:00 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.