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TABLE 4 Cancer Incidence Rates* by Site and State, US, 1998 to 2002
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*Per 100,000, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Not all states submitted data for all years.
†This state’s registry has submitted five years of data and passed rigorous criteria for each single year’s data including: completeness of reporting,
non-duplication of records, percent unknown in critical data fields, percent of cases registered with information from death certificates only, and internal
consistency among data items.
‡This state’s registry did not submit incidence data to the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) for 1998 to 2002.
Source: Cancer in North America: 1998 to 2002, Volume One: Incidence, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.
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