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State Cancer Profiles

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 06/24/2018 10:12 pm.
Data for the United States does not include data from Nevada

*** No Healthy People 2020 Objective for this cancer.

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 1969-2015 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.
Healthy People 2020 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

* 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 2017 data submission and SEER November 2017 submission as published in United States Cancer Statistics.
6 Source: State Cancer Registry and the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2017 data submission.
10 Source: Incidence data provided by the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). EAPCs calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Rates 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 modified by NCI. The 1969-2016 US Population Data File is used with NPCR November 2017 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.
Incidence Rate Report for Alaska by Borough or Census Area

All Cancer Sites, 2011-2015

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

Sorted by Rate
Borough Or Census Area Met Healthy People Objective of ***? Age-Adjusted Incidence Rate†
cases per 100,000
(95% Confidence Interval)		 Average Annual Count Recent Trend Recent 5-Year Trend‡ in Incidence Rates
(95% Confidence Interval)
Alaska6,10 *** 407.5 (400.1, 415.1) 2,672 stable stable trend -1.9 (-4.0, 0.2)
US (SEER+NPCR)1,10 *** 441.2 (440.9, 441.5) 1,580,653 falling falling trend -1.4 (-2.0, -0.7)
Lake and Peninsula Borough6,10 *** 560.1 (369.6, 806.9) 7 stable stable trend -17.8 (-45.4, 23.9)
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area6,10 *** 499.8 (422.1, 588.0) 32 stable stable trend -8.7 (-22.4, 7.4)
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area6,10 *** 464.6 (383.0, 558.4) 29 stable stable trend -0.5 (-17.1, 19.3)
Bristol Bay Borough6,10 *** 455.6 (280.8, 706.1) 5 stable stable trend -3.3 (-18.1, 14.1)
Nome Census Area6,10 *** 452.8 (380.5, 534.1) 33 stable stable trend -10.0 (-23.2, 5.4)
Ketchikan Gateway Borough6,10 *** 445.6 (396.1, 499.6) 67 stable stable trend -6.3 (-19.2, 8.7)
North Slope Borough6,10 *** 442.2 (350.4, 548.2) 25 stable stable trend 12.4 (-9.3, 39.3)
Matanuska-Susitna Borough6,10 *** 435.6 (414.4, 457.6) 380 stable stable trend -1.1 (-4.1, 2.1)
Anchorage Municipality6,10 *** 422.7 (410.6, 434.9) 1,087 falling falling trend -1.6 (-2.5, -0.7)
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area6,10 *** 400.1 (332.6, 477.2) 29 stable stable trend -3.3 (-27.1, 28.5)
Valdez-Cordova Census Area6,10 *** 399.9 (336.9, 470.9) 38 stable stable trend -5.8 (-13.5, 2.7)
Kenai Peninsula Borough6,10 *** 397.7 (375.2, 421.2) 269 stable stable trend -0.0 (-6.8, 7.3)
Fairbanks North Borough6,10 *** 393.3 (371.8, 415.6) 306 stable stable trend -3.5 (-8.7, 1.9)
Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area6,10 *** 383.8 (319.8, 457.7) 28 stable stable trend -8.7 (-20.7, 5.2)
Kodiak Island Borough6,10 *** 382.3 (328.0, 442.7) 45 stable stable trend -4.0 (-21.0, 16.5)
Aleutians West Census Area6,10 *** 375.6 (245.0, 542.7) 12 stable stable trend 13.7 (-10.8, 44.8)
Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area6,10 *** 374.5 (286.7, 482.3) 15 stable stable trend 5.1 (-27.3, 51.8)
Juneau City and Borough6,10 *** 367.5 (336.2, 400.9) 122 stable stable trend -0.2 (-11.3, 12.2)
Dillingham Census Area6,10 *** 354.7 (273.1, 452.4) 15 stable stable trend -0.0 (-36.1, 56.4)
Haines Borough6,10 *** 354.6 (261.4, 472.5) 11 stable stable trend 8.6 (-38.6, 92.0)
Northwest Arctic Borough6,10 *** 352.6 (282.0, 434.7) 19 stable stable trend -5.9 (-13.5, 2.3)
Wade Hampton Census Area6,10 *** 329.7 (253.2, 420.6) 15 stable stable trend -13.3 (-35.3, 16.3)
Sitka City and Borough6,10 *** 324.7 (275.2, 380.7) 33 stable stable trend -5.0 (-34.7, 38.1)
Bethel Census Area6,10 *** 311.7 (264.1, 364.8) 36 stable stable trend 6.8 (-20.8, 44.2)
Aleutians East Borough6,10 *** 251.4 (148.3, 393.6) 5 stable stable trend -7.4 (-31.2, 24.8)
Denali Borough6,10 *** 248.6 (158.2, 382.5) 6 stable stable trend 4.0 (-28.5, 51.4)
Yakutat City and Borough6,10 *
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