Measure Source

National Cancer Institute (NCI), Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.

National Table

1.7a Rate of colorectal cancer incidence per 100,000 men and women age 50 and over diagnosed at advanced stage (tumors diagnosed at regional or distant stage), United States, 2000 and 2002.

National Data Source

NCI, SEER 13 Registry Database. The ethnicity category uses SEER 13 excluding Alaska.

National Denominator

U.S. population age 50 and over.

National Numerator

Number of new colorectal cancers diagnosed in the survey years as regional or distant staged cancers.

State Table

1.7b Colorectal cancer incidence rate per 100,000 for men and women age 50 and over diagnosed at advanced stage (regional and distant SEER summary stage), by State, 2001 and 2002.

State Data Source

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR).

State Denominator

Population age 50 and over.

State Numerator

Number of new colorectal cancers diagnosed in the survey years as regional or distant staged cancers.

Comments

All rates except as noted are per 100,000 men and women age 50 and over and are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard million population by 5-year age groups.

Regional stage is defined as a neoplasm that has extended beyond the limits of the organ of origin, either directly into surrounding organs or tissues or into regional lymph nodes. Distant stage is defined as a neoplasm that has spread to parts of the body remote from the primary tumor, either by direct extension or by discontinuous metastasis. For more information on staging, see Ries LAG, Eisner MP, Kosary CL, Hankey BF, Miller BA, Clegg L, Mariotto A, Fay MP, Feuer EJ, Edwards BK (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2000, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD, http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2000, 2003.