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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report by State

Cervix (All Stages^), 2016

All Races (includes Hispanic), Female, All Ages

Sorted by Rate

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 7.2 is from the Healthy People 2020 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Incidence Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The incidence rate is based upon 100,000 people and is an annual rate (or average annual rate) based on the time period indicated. Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population.

Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the AAPC/APC:

AAPC/APC (95% Confidence Interval) - the change in rate over time


Other Notes

  • Larger confidence intervals indicate less stability of the data. This is often due to low counts that are not quite low enough to be suppressed.
  • Data is currently being suppressed if there are fewer than 16 counts for the time period.

    • Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


    US (SEER+NPCR)1,10


    Puerto Rico2,10


    Kentucky7,8


    Alabama2,10


    New Mexico7,8


    Florida2,10


    Texas2,10


    Mississippi2,10


    Oklahoma2,10


    Nevada2,10


    West Virginia2,10


    Montana2,10


    Arkansas2,10


    Indiana2,10


    Missouri2,10


    Delaware2,10


    Tennessee2,10


    Louisiana7,8


    Ohio2,10


    District of Columbia2,10


    Illinois2,10


    Pennsylvania2,10


    Idaho7,8


    South Carolina2,10


    Georgia7,8


    New York7,8


    New Jersey7,8


    California7,8


    North Dakota2,10


    North Carolina2,10


    Iowa7,8


    Wisconsin2,10


    Kansas2,10


    South Dakota2,10


    Alaska2,10


    Maryland2,10


    Hawaii7,8


    Michigan4,10


    Oregon2,10


    Colorado2,10


    Virginia2,10


    Washington4,10


    Arizona2,10


    Connecticut7,8


    Rhode Island2,10


    Utah7,8


    Minnesota2,10


    Wyoming2,10


    Massachusetts7,8


    Nebraska2,10


    Maine2,10


    New Hampshire2,10


    Vermont2,10

    Notes:
    Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/26/2020 12:01 am.

    State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
    † Incidence rates (cases per 100,000 population per year) are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). Rates are for invasive cancer only (except for bladder cancer which is invasive and in situ) or unless otherwise specified. Rates calculated using SEER*Stat. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The 1969-2016 US Population Data File is used for SEER and NPCR incidence rates.
    ‡ Incidence data come 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 area for additional information.

    Rates and trends are computed using different standards for malignancy. For more information see malignant.html.

    ^ All Stages refers to any stage in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) summary stage.
    Healthy People 2020 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    Health Service Areas are a single county or cluster of contiguous counties which are relatively self-contained with respect to hospital care. For more detailed information, please see Health Service Area information page.
    # Data do not include cases diagnosed in other states for those states in which the data exchange agreement specifically prohibits the release of data to third parties.
    * 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.
    * 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).

    1 Source: CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2018 data submission and SEER November 2018 submission as published in United States Cancer Statistics.
    2 Source: State Cancer Registry and the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2018 data submission as published in United States Cancer Statistics.
    4 Source: State Cancer Registry and the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2018 data submission as published in United States Cancer Statistics . State rates include rates from areas funded by SEER.
    7 Source: SEER November 2018 submission.
    8 Source: Incidence data provided by the SEER Program. AAPCs are calculated by the Joinpoint Regression Program and are based on APCs. Data are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84,85+). Rates are for invasive cancer only (except for bladder cancer which is invasive and in situ) or unless otherwise specified. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modifed by NCI. The 1969-2017 US Population Data File is used with SEER November 2018 data.

    Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availablility, 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.

    Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer incidence statistics. When the population size for a denominator is small, the rates may be unstable. A rate is unstable when a small change in the numerator (e.g., only one or two additional cases) has a dramatic effect on the calculated rate.

    Data for United States does not include Puerto Rico.