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Interpretation of Death Rates Data

Death Rate Report for North Carolina by County

Breast, 2016-2020

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, All Ages

Sorted by Recentaapc

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 15.3 is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2020 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC:

AAPC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Average Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


North Carolina


United States


Carteret County


Chatham County


Transylvania County


Yadkin County


Beaufort County


Duplin County


Person County


Granville County


Cherokee County


Buncombe County


Haywood County


Sampson County


Bladen County


Orange County


Richmond County


Lenoir County


Gaston County


Harnett County


Hertford County


Cleveland County


Johnston County


New Hanover County


Rockingham County


Stanly County


Surry County


Durham County


Mecklenburg County


Moore County


Northampton County


Halifax County


Pender County


Rowan County


Lincoln County


Pitt County


Union County


Wake County


Guilford County


Macon County


Randolph County


Wilson County


Bertie County


Brunswick County


Catawba County


Columbus County


Franklin County


Hoke County


Wayne County


Wilkes County


Alamance County


Henderson County


Caswell County


Edgecombe County


Alexander County


Forsyth County


Anson County


Craven County


Burke County


Stokes County


Cumberland County


Davidson County


Iredell County


Martin County


McDowell County


Robeson County


Rutherford County


Scotland County


Cabarrus County


Caldwell County


Watauga County


Onslow County


Pasquotank County


Nash County


Vance County


Dare County


Davie County


Jackson County


Lee County


Mitchell County


Montgomery County


Polk County


Warren County


Yancey County


Alleghany County Ashe County Avery County Camden County Chowan County Clay County Currituck County Gates County Graham County Greene County Hyde County Jones County Madison County Pamlico County Perquimans County Swain County Tyrrell County Washington County

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/29/2024 4:08 am.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
Trend
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.

† Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
‡ The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.
* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.
Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.

When displaying county information, the CI*Rank for the state is not shown because it's not comparable. To see the state CI*Rank please view the statistics at the US By State level.