State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Alabama by County

Lung & Bronchus (Late Stage^), 2015-2019

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, All Ages

Sorted by Percentlate

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of *** 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.

Percent of Cases with Late Stage - This is the number of late stages cases compared to the number of cases for all stages.

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

Alabama⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.9 to 40.3 and 2,533 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.6

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.4 to 37.6 and 149,248 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.9

Sumter County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 50.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.0 to 70.4 and 8 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (1, 63)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 76.4

Clarke County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.0 to 54.7 and 15 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 20 (2, 61)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 74.5

Macon County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 32.4 to 55.7 and 12 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 29 (2, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 71.3

Walker County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 61.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 54.8 to 69.5 and 59 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 9)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 71.0

Pickens County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 35.7 to 59.5 and 14 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 12 (1, 62)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 70.8

Jefferson County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 40.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.2 to 42.2 and 326 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 36 (21, 46)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 69.8

Mobile County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 40.8 to 45.9 and 229 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 21 (11, 39)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 69.3

Lamar County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 59.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 45.4 to 78.1 and 12 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 44)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.9

Marengo County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 36.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 26.4 to 48.7 and 10 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 44 (5, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.6

St. Clair County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 50.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 45.1 to 57.0 and 60 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (2, 28)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.4

Bullock County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 48.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.1 to 69.8 and 6 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (1, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.1

Cleburne County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 44.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 32.7 to 60.2 and 9 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 18 (1, 64)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.1

Tuscaloosa County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.1 to 41.6 and 83 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 43 (22, 57)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 68.1

Winston County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 48.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.6 to 59.6 and 18 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (1, 53)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 67.4

Dallas County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 41.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.7 to 50.1 and 22 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 32 (5, 62)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 67.1

Fayette County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 31.7 to 56.4 and 11 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 30 (2, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 67.1

Randolph County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 48.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.1 to 61.3 and 16 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (1, 55)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.7

Autauga County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 39.3 to 54.3 and 31 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 13 (2, 48)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.5

Chilton County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 32.8 to 48.2 and 23 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 37 (6, 62)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.3

Escambia County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 51.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.7 to 61.2 and 26 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 40)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 66.0

Shelby County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 31.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 27.9 to 34.3 and 78 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 60 (44, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.9

Etowah County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 45.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 41.1 to 51.3 and 68 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 15 (4, 40)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.7

Hale County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 32.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 22.4 to 45.7 and 7 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 58 (8, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.5

Madison County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 32.7 to 37.7 and 159 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 46 (35, 59)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.5

Monroe County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 26.5 to 46.1 and 11 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 48 (7, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.5

Coosa County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 33.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 22.6 to 49.9 and 6 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 55 (5, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.3

Talladega County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 45.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 40.1 to 51.9 and 51 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 16 (3, 46)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.2

Blount County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 44.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 38.5 to 52.2 and 36 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 17 (4, 48)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 65.1

Lee County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 32.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 28.0 to 36.4 and 48 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 59 (36, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.7

Chambers County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.8 to 52.1 and 21 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 28 (3, 59)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.6

Russell County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.4 to 50.9 and 30 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 23 (3, 55)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.5

Conecuh County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 46.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.7 to 62.8 and 9 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 14 (1, 64)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.4

Lauderdale County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 38.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.0 to 43.8 and 52 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 40 (14, 58)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.3

Choctaw County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 28.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 19.3 to 41.5 and 6 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 63 (18, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 64.0

Cherokee County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 40.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 32.1 to 50.5 and 18 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 35 (4, 64)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.8

Baldwin County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 40.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.4 to 43.9 and 131 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 33 (15, 47)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.4

Bibb County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 51.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 40.1 to 64.7 and 15 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (1, 53)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 63.0

Elmore County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 37.5 to 49.5 and 43 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 24 (5, 51)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 62.4

Montgomery County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 33.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 30.0 to 36.3 and 89 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 57 (38, 64)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 62.4

Dale County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 40.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 33.7 to 48.0 and 27 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 34 (7, 61)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 62.1

Henry County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 38.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 28.7 to 51.4 and 11 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 41 (3, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 62.1

Calhoun County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 47.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.2 to 52.4 and 72 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 11 (3, 37)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 61.8

Cullman County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 41.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.3 to 47.2 and 49 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 31 (7, 53)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 61.0

Jackson County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.9 to 50.6 and 35 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 22 (4, 54)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 60.5

Houston County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 33.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.6 to 38.4 and 49 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 56 (29, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 60.4

Butler County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.3 to 46.3 and 10 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 52 (6, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 60.2

Pike County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 37.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.4 to 48.0 and 14 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 42 (5, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 60.0

Tallapoosa County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 44.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 36.9 to 52.7 and 28 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 19 (3, 54)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 59.6

DeKalb County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 30.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 25.4 to 35.5 and 29 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 61 (38, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 58.6

Limestone County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.9 to 39.8 and 41 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 50 (26, 64)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 58.6

Lawrence County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 35.0 to 52.1 and 21 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 27 (3, 58)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 58.5

Lowndes County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 43.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 29.0 to 62.3 and 6 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 25 (1, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 58.5

Clay County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 56.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 42.3 to 74.1 and 11 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 50)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 58.2

Barbour County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 26.3 to 44.6 and 12 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 53 (8, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 57.9

Washington County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 26.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 18.4 to 38.4 and 7 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 66 (27, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 56.9

Greene County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 28.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 17.4 to 45.6 and 4 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 64 (8, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 56.8

Marshall County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 34.4 to 44.5 and 50 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 39 (13, 58)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 54.3

Wilcox County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 22.7 to 52.1 and 5 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 49 (3, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 54.0

Coffee County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 28.4 to 41.7 and 23 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 51 (18, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 53.0

Crenshaw County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 42.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 31.1 to 58.4 and 9 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 26 (1, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 52.3

Geneva County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 39.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 31.4 to 49.9 and 16 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 38 (4, 64)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 51.9

Morgan County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 31.1 to 39.5 and 57 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 47 (27, 62)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 51.9

Marion County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 34.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 27.0 to 43.0 and 16 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 54 (15, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 47.6

Franklin County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 28.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 21.8 to 37.6 and 12 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 62 (29, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 45.3

Covington County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 35.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 28.8 to 43.6 and 20 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 45 (12, 65)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 44.2

Colbert County⁶

• Rate : The incidence rate is 28.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 23.0 to 33.9 and 23 average annual cases over 2015-2019.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 65 (43, 66)
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : 42.3

Perry County⁶

• Rate : * 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).
• CI*Rank⋔ : *
• Percent of Cases with Late Stage : *

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 06/01/2023 7:17 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.

⋔ Results presented with the CI*Rank statistics help show the usefulness of ranks. For example, ranks for relatively rare diseases or less populated areas may be essentially meaningless because of their large variability, but ranks for more common diseases in densely populated regions can be very useful. More information about methodology can be found on the CI*Rank website.

† 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 US Population Data File is used for SEER and NPCR incidence rates.

Rates are computed using cancers classified as malignant based on ICD-O-3. For more information see malignant.html.

^ Late Stage is defined as cases determined to be regional or distant. Due to changes in stage coding, Combined Summary Stage (2004+) is used for data from Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) databases and Merged Summary Stage is used for data from National Program of Cancer Registries databases. Due to the increased complexity with staging, other staging variables maybe used if necessary.
* 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: National Program of Cancer Registries and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results SEER*Stat Database (2001-2019) - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute. Based on the 2021 submission.
⁶ Source: National Program of Cancer Registries SEER*Stat Database (2001-2019) - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (based on the 2021 submission).

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 the United States does not include data from Nevada.
Data for the 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.