State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Jersey by County

Breast (Late Stage^), 2014-2018

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 42.1 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

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.7 to 44.4 and 2,409 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.0

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 41.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.6 to 41.8 and 79,558 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.9

Sussex County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 48.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.7 to 55.2 and 45 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 34.0

Essex County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 47.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 44.7 to 50.5 and 220 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 12)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 33.7

Burlington County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 47.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 43.8 to 51.3 and 138 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.6

Warren County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 39.3 to 54.8 and 33 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 34.1

Cape May County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.4 to 55.5 and 32 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (1, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.7

Camden County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.9 to 49.9 and 147 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (1, 16)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 33.2

Gloucester County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.5 to 50.7 and 84 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (1, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.8

Mercer County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 45.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.2 to 49.6 and 98 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (1, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 32.0

Union County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 44.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.2 to 48.0 and 145 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (1, 18)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 32.2

Monmouth County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 44.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.1 to 47.1 and 183 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (2, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.2

Morris County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 40.6 to 47.4 and 141 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 11 (2, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 28.9

Ocean County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 40.6 to 47.0 and 181 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 12 (2, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 30.1

Atlantic County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 39.1 to 48.5 and 77 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 13 (1, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 32.2

Salem County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.7 to 54.4 and 16 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 14 (1, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 28.9

Passaic County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : No
• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.9 to 45.9 and 123 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 15 (4, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 32.1

Somerset County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 41.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.9 to 46.1 and 89 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 16 (4, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 28.5

Middlesex County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 41.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.8 to 44.1 and 203 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 17 (8, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.9

Bergen County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 40.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.6 to 43.3 and 250 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 18 (9, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 28.5

Hunterdon County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.2 to 46.4 and 33 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 19 (3, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 24.8

Hudson County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.1 to 42.0 and 138 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 20 (12, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 35.2

Cumberland County⁷

• Met Healthy People Objective of 42.1? : Yes
• Rate : The incidence rate is 36.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 30.7 to 42.6 and 32 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 21 (10, 21)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 30.2

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 06/24/2022 10:22 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 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 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.