Figure 1

Average (Period 1994–1998), Annual Age-Standardized Incidence and Mortality Rates of Invasive Cervical Cancer for Individual Canadian Provinces, for Canada, and for the United States All rates refer to numbers of new cases or deaths per 100,000 and are standardized according to the Canadian population of 1991. Incidence data for the U.S. refer to the nine main state or metropolitan area registries belonging to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program from the Cancer Surveillance Research Program of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), and mortality data refer to the entire U.S.population. Source: Statistics Canada and SEER database.[4]