State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Hampshire by County

Lung & Bronchus (All Stages^), 2014-2018

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

Sorted by Name

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 62.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 60.8 to 64.2 and 1,136 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.0 to -1.2.

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 57.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 57.1 to 57.4 and 222,811 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.4 to -1.8.

Belknap County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 69.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 61.7 to 77.4 and 67 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 7)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -3.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -11.7 to 4.7.

Carroll County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 57.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 50.5 to 65.7 and 52 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (3, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.8 to 1.1.

Cheshire County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 59.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 52.8 to 66.4 and 65 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (3, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.5 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.8 to -0.3.

Coos County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 63.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 54.3 to 74.4 and 35 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (2, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.5 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.1 to 1.1.

Grafton County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 53.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 47.7 to 59.3 and 72 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (7, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.9 to 0.8.

Hillsborough County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 60.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 57.5 to 63.8 and 303 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (4, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.0 to -0.8.

Merrimack County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 59.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 54.6 to 64.5 and 120 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (4, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.5 to -0.3.

Rockingham County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 64.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 60.6 to 67.8 and 263 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (2, 7)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -2.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.6 to -1.3.

Strafford County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 78.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 72.2 to 85.6 and 115 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 2)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.9 to 1.1.

Sullivan County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 66.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 58.0 to 76.6 and 44 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.5 to 1.3.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/04/2022 7:54 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.