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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Alaska by Borough or Census Area

Thyroid (All Stages^), 2017-2021

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

Sorted by CI*Rank

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.

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

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


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


Alaska6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Matanuska-Susitna Borough6


Kenai Peninsula Borough6


Anchorage Municipality6


Fairbanks North Borough6


Juneau City and Borough6


Aleutians East Borough6 Aleutians West Census Area6 Bethel Census Area6 Bristol Bay Borough6 Denali Borough6 Dillingham Census Area6 Haines Borough6 Hoonah-Angoon Census Area6 Ketchikan Gateway Borough6 Kodiak Island Borough6 Kusilvak Census Area6 Lake and Peninsula Borough6 Nome Census Area6 North Slope Borough6 Northwest Arctic Borough6 Petersburg Census Area6 Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area6 Sitka City and Borough6 Skagway Municipality6 Southeast Fairbanks Census Area6 Valdez-Cordova Census Area6 Wrangell Borough6 Yakutat City and Borough6 Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 11/14/2024 10:31 pm.

Alaska Census Area Name Change: please note that Wade Hampton Census Area, AK (FIPS code=02270) was renamed effective July 1, 2015, and the new name is Kusilvak Census Area (FIPS Code=02158). This website now uses Kusilvak.

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.
Aleutians East, Aleutians West, Bethel, Bristol Bay, Denali, Dillingham, Haines, Hoonah-Angoon, Ketchikan Gateway, Kodiak Island, Kusilvak, Lake and Peninsula, Nome, North Slope, Northwest Arctic, Petersburg, Prince of Wales-Hyder, Sitka, Skagway Municipality, Southeast Fairbanks, Valdez-Cordova, Wrangell, Yakutat City and Borough, Yukon-Koyukuk

† 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 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/Historic Combined Summary Stage (2004+).
⋔ 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.

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.

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.