Description: Age-adjusted breast cancer mortality rates are for the United States by county and reflect an average of the years 2006-2010. Data are from the National Cancer Institute's State Cancer Profiles web site http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/). Data were downloaded from the interactive maps in at this web site: http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/map/map.noimage.php. The data are for the U.S. by county for Breast Cancer Rates. The data are for White (including Hispanic) and Black (including Hispanic) Females of all ages. The rates are five-year averages of the number of deaths per 100,000 women, and the 100,000 women are the women in the resident population, or the population being described (e.g., black women of all ages for the black female mortality rate or white women of all ages for the white female mortality rate) (source: http://seer.cancer.gov/statistics/types/mortality.html.)
Copyright Text: National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, Esri