Maps of clusters of states with the highest prostate cancer rates in the USA
Below are maps of clusters of states with the highest prostate cancer rates in the USA. The clusters were found by counting the number of shared borders among states with the highest prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates of white, black, and Hispanic men.
Included are also the lists of states with the highest prostate 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 men prostate mortality rates
Figure 1: A cluster of states with the highest prostate mortality rates of Hispanic men
Shared-border ratio: 107% (16 shared borders among 15 states)
List of states with highest rates:
| State | Rate (per 100,000) | Color | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhode Island | 21.5 | |
| 2 | Colorado | 20.7 | |
| 3 | Arizona | 20.4 | |
| 4 | New York | 20.2 | |
| 5 | New Mexico | 20.1 | |
| 6 | California | 18.1 | |
| 7 | Utah | 18.1 | |
| 8 | Florida | 17.8 | Not In Cluster |
| 9 | Pennsylvania | 17.1 | |
| 10 | Connecticut | 16.4 | |
| 11 | Texas | 16.4 | |
| 12 | Wisconsin | 15.4 | Not In Cluster |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 14.9 | |
| 14 | Virginia | 14.5 | Not In Cluster |
| 15 | Oregon | 14.2 |
(Number of states in the contiguous U.S. with numerical cancer rates in the CDC file: 29)