State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Hampshire by County

Colon & Rectum (Late Stage^), 2016-2020

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 50+

Sorted by CI*Rank

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

• Rate : The incidence rate is 60.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 57.7 to 63.7 and 324 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 59.4

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Rate : The incidence rate is 63.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 63.7 to 64.1 and 70,926 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 58.4

Cheshire County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 73.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 60.3 to 88.0 and 23 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 8)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.3

Belknap County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 72.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 58.5 to 87.8 and 21 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 8)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 60.6

Strafford County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 71.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 60.2 to 83.5 and 31 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 7)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 60.8

Coos County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 70.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 52.8 to 92.4 and 11 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 74.3

Carroll County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 67.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 54.3 to 83.8 and 19 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (1, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.6

Merrimack County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 63.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 54.5 to 73.4 and 38 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (2, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.3

Sullivan County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 58.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 43.7 to 76.1 and 11 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (1, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 54.4

Rockingham County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 57.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 51.1 to 63.4 and 70 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (5, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 54.9

Hillsborough County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 54.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 49.3 to 60.3 and 80 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (6, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 57.6

Grafton County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 52.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.5 to 64.2 and 20 average annual cases over 2016-2020.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (5, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 56.5

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 12/11/2023 6:14 pm.

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

† 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.

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 the United States does not include data from Nevada.
Data for the 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.