Table 6a: Cancer deaths per 100,000 male population per year for prostate cancera, by race, United States, 2001

  Total AI/AN API Black or African American White
Population group Number Rate SE Number Rate SE Number Rate SE Number Rate SE Number Rate SE
                               
Total 30,719 29.1 0.2 92 19.0 2.1 296 11.6 0.7 5,265 66.1 0.9 25,066 26.6 0.2
                               
Age (not age adjusted)                              
    0-17 0 * * 0 * * 0 * * 0 * * 0 * *
    18-44 32 0.1 0.0 0 * * 0 * * 12 * * 20 0.0 0.0
    45-64 2,319 7.4 0.2 11 * * 16 * * 611 19.1 0.8 1,681 6.3 0.2
    65 and over 28,368 194.5 1.2 81 109.0 12.1 280 70.2 4.2 4,642 415.0 6.1 23,365 179.9 1.2
                               
Education (age 25-64 years)                              
    Less than high school graduate 428 3.8 0.2 4 * * 3 * * 162 9.2 0.7 259 2.9 0.2
    High school graduate 894 4.1 0.1 3 * * 5 * * 269 12.2 0.7 617 3.3 0.1
    At least some college 839 2.2 0.1 1 * * 8 * * 114 4.5 0.4 716 2.2 0.1
                               

aRates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.

*Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality or confidentiality (based on < 20 deaths).

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander

Note: The population categories used in this table are as reported from the source of the data (see below).

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics System.

Table 6b Table 5a

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