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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Alabama by County

Colon & Rectum (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages 50+

Sorted by Name

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


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


Alabama6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Autauga County6


Baldwin County6


Barbour County6


Bibb County6


Blount County6


Butler County6


Calhoun County6


Chambers County6


Cherokee County6


Chilton County6


Choctaw County6


Clarke County6


Clay County6


Cleburne County6


Coffee County6


Colbert County6


Conecuh County6


Covington County6


Crenshaw County6


Cullman County6


Dale County6


Dallas County6


DeKalb County6


Elmore County6


Escambia County6


Etowah County6


Fayette County6


Franklin County6


Geneva County6


Greene County6


Hale County6


Henry County6


Houston County6


Jackson County6


Jefferson County6


Lamar County6


Lauderdale County6


Lawrence County6


Lee County6


Limestone County6


Lowndes County6


Macon County6


Madison County6


Marengo County6


Marion County6


Marshall County6


Mobile County6


Monroe County6


Montgomery County6


Morgan County6


Perry County6


Pickens County6


Pike County6


Randolph County6


Russell County6


Shelby County6


St. Clair County6


Sumter County6


Talladega County6


Tallapoosa County6


Tuscaloosa County6


Walker County6


Washington County6


Wilcox County6


Winston County6


Bullock County6 Coosa County6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 10/10/2024 9:53 pm.

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

Data cannot be shown for the following areas. For more information on what areas are suppressed or not available, please refer to the table.
Bullock, Coosa

† 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.
Φ Rural-Urban Continuum Codes provided by the USDA.
* 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).
Source: SEER and NPCR data. For more specific information please see the table.

Data for the United States does not include data from Indiana.
Data for the United States does not include Puerto Rico.