State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Jersey by County

Lung & Bronchus (Late Stage^), 2015-2019

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, 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.

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 Jersey³

• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.8 to 35.8 and 3,957 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.2

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.4 to 37.6 and 149,248 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.9

Salem County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 54.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 47.8 to 62.3 and 48 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 4)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.1

Cape May County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 48.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 43.9 to 53.9 and 84 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 8)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.1

Cumberland County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 47.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 43.1 to 52.3 and 85 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 70.1

Ocean County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 45.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 43.9 to 47.8 and 445 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (2, 8)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 62.7

Gloucester County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 45.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.0 to 48.5 and 161 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (2, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.9

Warren County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 44.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 39.4 to 49.3 and 65 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (2, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.6

Camden County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 40.9 to 45.7 and 267 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (3, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 67.1

Sussex County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.9 to 47.7 and 83 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (2, 11)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 72.6

Atlantic County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 39.6 to 45.8 and 155 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (3, 10)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.1

Burlington County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.6 to 42.3 and 236 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (7, 11)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.5

Monmouth County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 35.2 to 39.0 and 312 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 11 (10, 12)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.5

Mercer County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.3 to 38.4 and 159 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 12 (10, 13)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 67.1

Morris County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 32.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 30.3 to 34.3 and 212 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 13 (12, 17)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 70.0

Middlesex County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 31.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 30.3 to 33.6 and 311 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 14 (13, 17)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.8

Essex County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 31.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.6 to 33.0 and 273 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 15 (13, 18)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 69.9

Bergen County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 30.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 28.9 to 31.7 and 380 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 16 (13, 18)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.8

Hunterdon County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 29.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.5 to 33.0 and 52 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 17 (13, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.4

Passaic County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 29.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 27.0 to 31.0 and 168 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 18 (14, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.4

Hudson County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 27.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.7 to 29.4 and 179 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 19 (17, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.8

Union County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 27.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.4 to 29.1 and 172 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 20 (17, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 69.5

Somerset County⁷

• Rate : The incidence rate is 26.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 23.9 to 28.5 and 108 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 21 (17, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.4

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/28/2023 11:40 am.

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.

¹ Source: National Program of Cancer Registries and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results SEER*Stat Database (2001-2019) - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute. Based on the 2021 submission.
³ Source: SEER November 2021 submission. State Cancer Registry also receives funding from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries.
⁷ Source: SEER November 2021 submission.

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.