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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for North Carolina by County

Breast (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, 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.

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


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


North Carolina6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Alamance County6


Alexander County6


Alleghany County6


Anson County6


Ashe County6


Avery County6


Beaufort County6


Bertie County6


Bladen County6


Brunswick County6


Buncombe County6


Burke County6


Cabarrus County6


Caldwell County6


Carteret County6


Caswell County6


Catawba County6


Chatham County6


Cherokee County6


Chowan County6


Clay County6


Cleveland County6


Columbus County6


Craven County6


Cumberland County6


Currituck County6


Dare County6


Davidson County6


Davie County6


Duplin County6


Durham County6


Edgecombe County6


Forsyth County6


Franklin County6


Gaston County6


Granville County6


Greene County6


Guilford County6


Halifax County6


Harnett County6


Haywood County6


Henderson County6


Hertford County6


Hoke County6


Iredell County6


Jackson County6


Johnston County6


Jones County6


Lee County6


Lenoir County6


Lincoln County6


Macon County6


Madison County6


Martin County6


McDowell County6


Mecklenburg County6


Mitchell County6


Montgomery County6


Moore County6


Nash County6


New Hanover County6


Northampton County6


Onslow County6


Orange County6


Pamlico County6


Pasquotank County6


Pender County6


Perquimans County6


Person County6


Pitt County6


Polk County6


Randolph County6


Richmond County6


Robeson County6


Rockingham County6


Rowan County6


Rutherford County6


Sampson County6


Scotland County6


Stanly County6


Stokes County6


Surry County6


Swain County6


Transylvania County6


Union County6


Vance County6


Wake County6


Warren County6


Washington County6


Watauga County6


Wayne County6


Wilkes County6


Wilson County6


Yadkin County6


Yancey County6


Camden County6 Gates County6 Graham County6 Hyde County6 Tyrrell County6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 12/07/2024 10:37 pm.

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.
Camden, Gates, Graham, Hyde, Tyrrell

† 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.
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.