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Table III-6
Comparison of 1996 Indiana State and County Incidence Rates
CANCER: PROSTATE, INVASIVE
All Races, Males Only
County # Cases Rate St. Error Significance
INDIANA 2,839 98.9 1.86
1. Adams 6 ** # ##
2. Allen 122 86.7 7.87 NS
3. Bartholomew 25 76.7 15.39 NS
4. Benton 5 ** # ##
5. Blackford 12 ** # ##
6. Boone 29 148.2 27.59 NS
7. Brown 7 ** # ##
8. Carroll 8 ** # ##
9. Cass 21 94.1 20.70 NS
10. Clark 39 85.0 13.66 NS
11. Clay 11 ** # ##
12. Clinton 17 ** # ##
13. Crawford * ** # ##
14. Daviess 19 ** # ##
15. Dearborn 25 114.2 22.88 NS
16. Decatur 14 ** # ##
17. DeKalb 12 ** # ##
18. Delaware 47 81.0 11.85 NS
19. Dubois 18 ** # ##
20. Elkhart 68 92.3 11.22 NS
21. Fayette 15 ** # ##
22. Floyd 39 114.9 18.45 NS
23. Fountain 13 ** # ##
24. Franklin * ** # ##
25. Fulton 7 ** # ##
26. Gibson 20 109.6 24.79 NS
27. Grant 30 70.1 12.85 NS
28. Greene 19 ** # ##
29. Hamilton 38 66.8 10.93 NS
30. Hancock 12 ** # ##
31. Harrison 9 ** # ##
32. Hendricks 41 105.0 16.43 NS
33. Henry 31 106.6 19.24 NS
34. Howard 28 68.2 12.93 NS
35. Huntington 11 ** # ##
36. Jackson 13 ** # ##
37. Jasper 18 ** # ##
38. Jay 104 ** # ##
39. Jefferson 14 ** # ##
40. Jennings 6 ** # ##
41. Johnson 37 85.4 14.07 NS
42. Knox 19 ** # ##
43. Kosciusko 33 94.2 16.50 NS
44. LaGrange 10 ** # ##
45. Lake 341 137.2 7.49 Higher
46. LaPorte 80 131.7 14.79 NS
47. Lawrence 38 151.9 24.76 NS
48. Madison 97 133.7 13.64 NS
49. Marion 379 106.3 5.47 NS
50. Marshall 21 86.1 18.86 NS
51. Martin 11 ** # ##
52. Miami 10 ** # ##
53. Monroe 35 86.6 14.67 NS
54. Montgomery 20 99.4 22.41 NS
55. Morgan 40 139.5 22.11 NS
56. Newton 8 ** # ##
57. Noble 18 ** # ##
58. Ohio 5 ** # ##
59. Orange 13 ** # ##
60. Owen 17 ** # ##
61. Parke 10 ** # ##
62. Perry 9 ** # ##
63. Pike 8 ** # ##
64. Porter 77 126.6 14.49 NS
65. Posey 10 ** # ##
66. Pulaski 7 ** # ##
67. Putnam 11 ** # ##
68. Randolph 18 ** # ##
69. Ripley 16 ** # ##
70. Rush 11 ** # ##
71. St. Joseph 160 119.8 9.59 NS
72. Scott 11 ** # ##
73. Shelby 15 ** # ##
74. Spencer 6 ** # ##
75. Starke 16 ** # ##
76. Steuben 10 ** # ##
77. Sullivan 5 ** # ##
78. Switzerland 6 ** # ##
79. Tippecanoe 46 87.9 13.02 NS
80. Tipton 9 ** # ##
81. Union * ** # ##
82. Vanderburgh 72 76.0 9.06 NS
83. Vermillion 11 ** # ##
84. Vigo 33 61.3 10.73 NS
85. Wabash 13 ** # ##
86. Warren * ** # ##
87. Warrick 14 ** # ##
88. Washington 11 ** # ##
89. Wayne 57 134.6 17.93 NS
90. Wells 15 ** # ##
91. White 10 ** # ##
92. Whitley 11 ** # ##

  * Fewer than 5 cases, number suppressed to protect confidentiality.
** Rates based on fewer than twenty cases are unstable and are suppressed.
# Standard error cannot be calculated.
NS = Not significantly different from the state rate.
Lower = Significantly lower than the state rate.
Higher = Significantly higher than the state rate.
## Significance cannot be calculated.
N.B.: State total contains 4 cases that could not be assigned to a county.
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Source:  Indiana State Department of Health - Indiana State Cancer Registry and the Epidemiology Resource Center, Data Analysis Team, January 2001
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