Incidence Rates by Race/Ethnicity
"Incidence rate" means how many women out of a given number get the disease each year. The graph below shows how many women out of 100,000 got cervical cancer each year during the years 1999–2008. The year 2008 is the most recent year for which numbers have been reported. The cervical cancer incidence rate is grouped by race and ethnicity.
For example, you can see that in 2008, Hispanic women had the highest incidence rate for cervical cancer. Black women had the second highest rate of getting cervical cancer, followed by white, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Asian/Pacific Islander women.
