Maps of clusters of states with the highest ovarian cancer rates in the USA

Below are maps of clusters of states with the highest ovarian cancer rates in the USA. The clusters were found by counting the number of shared borders among states with the highest ovarian cancer incidence and mortality rates of white, black, and Hispanic women.

Included are also the lists of states with the highest ovarian cancer rates.

To learn more about this study, please read the main article. You may also want to read the map guidelines and glossary of terms.

You can view geographic clusters involving other cancers:


Hispanic women ovarian cancer mortality rates

Map of USA. A few states are colored red, a few are colored purple, a few are colored green, and most are colored gray.

Figure 1: A cluster of states with the highest ovarian cancer mortality rates of Hispanic women

Shared-border ratio: 144%   (23 shared borders among 16 states)

List of states with highest rates:

State Rate (per 100,000) Color
1 Oklahoma 8.6
2 Colorado 7.7
3 Maryland 6.6 Not In Cluster
4 Louisiana 6.5
5 Kansas 6.4
6 New Mexico 6.4
7 Arizona 6.2
8 Oregon 6.2
9 California 6.1
10 Michigan 6.1
11 Utah 6
12 Texas 5.9
13 Nevada 5.6
14 Wisconsin 5.5
15 Indiana 5.4
16 Ohio 5.4

(Number of states in the contiguous U.S. with numerical cancer rates in the CDC file: 27)