Table 4

Five-Year (2000–2004) Incidence Rates of Invasive Breast Cancer for Kaiser Permanente Female Members Aged 40–64 in Marin County and East/Central Contra Costa County, California1

Marin

East/Central Contra Costa

p-value


Number of cases/Population

184/65,937

384/148,388

Five-year rate per 100,000 women adjusted for age

257.7 (220.9 – 298.8)

240.5 (216.8 – 266.0)

p = .69

Five-year rate per 100,000 women adjusted for age and ethnicity

264.7 (224.6 – 309.8)

245.7 (218.9 – 274.9)

p = .74


1 Rates adjusted to the age and race/ethnic (White nonHispanic vs. Other) composition of the female population in each geographic area per U.S. Census 2000 estimates.

Lea et al. BMC Women's Health 2009 9:6   doi:10.1186/1472-6874-9-6

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