State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for New Jersey by County

Thyroid (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

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

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Rate : The incidence rate is 5.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.9 to 5.3 and 498 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 30.3

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : N/A
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.1 to 4.1 and 13,884 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.3

Cape May County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 6.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.2 to 9.7 and 6 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 1 (1, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 33.7

Monmouth County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 6.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 5.6 to 7.4 and 46 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 2 (1, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.4

Bergen County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 6.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 5.7 to 7.1 and 65 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 3 (1, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 34.9

Gloucester County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 6.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 5.0 to 7.6 and 19 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 4 (1, 14)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.9

Burlington County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 6.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 5.2 to 7.2 and 31 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 5 (1, 13)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 35.1

Ocean County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 6.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 5.1 to 7.0 and 39 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 6 (1, 13)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 27.4

Hunterdon County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 5.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.1 to 8.3 and 8 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 7 (1, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 26.6

Warren County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 5.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 3.9 to 8.1 and 7 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 8 (1, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 27.2

Passaic County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 5.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.4 to 6.2 and 29 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 9 (3, 17)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 34.8

Somerset County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 5.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.0 to 6.2 and 19 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 10 (3, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.5

Union County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.1 to 5.8 and 29 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 11 (4, 18)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 32.7

Middlesex County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.3 to 5.6 and 46 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 12 (6, 17)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 31.2

Morris County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 4.0 to 5.8 and 26 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 13 (5, 18)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 29.6

Mercer County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 3.8 to 5.7 and 19 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 14 (4, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 28.4

Hudson County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 3.6 to 5.0 and 33 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 15 (9, 19)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 33.3

Sussex County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 2.8 to 6.1 and 6 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 16 (3, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 24.8

Camden County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 3.4 to 5.0 and 22 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 17 (9, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 23.6

Atlantic County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 4.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 3.0 to 5.3 and 12 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 18 (7, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 25.6

Cumberland County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 3.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 2.3 to 5.0 and 6 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 19 (8, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 32.9

Essex County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : The incidence rate is 3.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 2.7 to 3.8 and 28 average annual cases over 2017-2021.
• CI*Rank ⋔ : 20 (17, 20)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 25.7

Salem County⁷

• 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes Φ : Urban
• Rate : * Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).
• CI*Rank ⋔ : *
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : *

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 10/04/2024 6:52 am.

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

Data cannot be shown for the following areas. For more information on what areas are suppressed or not available, please refer to the table.
Salem

† 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.
⋔ 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.

Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).
Source: SEER and NPCR data. For more specific information please see the table.

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