21-6.
Increase the proportion of oral and pharyngeal cancers detected at the earliest stage.
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21-6. | |
Increase the proportion of oral and pharyngeal cancers detected at the earliest stage. |
Target: 50 percent.
Baseline: 35 percent of oral and pharyngeal cancers (stage I, localized) were detected in 1990–95.
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER), NIH, NCI.
|
Persons With Oral and Pharyngeal |
Detected
at |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
35 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
20 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DNA |
|
Asian |
DNA |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNA |
|
Black or African American |
21 |
|
White |
38 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
36 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
34 |
|
Black or African American |
DNA |
|
White |
DNA |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
39 |
|
Male |
34 |
|
Education level |
|
|
Less than high school |
DNA |
|
High school graduate |
DNA |
|
At least some college |
DNA |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with disabilities |
DNA |
|
Persons without disabilities |
DNA |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.