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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Arkansas by County

Colon & Rectum (Late Stage^), 2015-2019

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

Sorted by Rate

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


Arkansas6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Monroe County6


Desha County6


Drew County6


Poinsett County6


Phillips County6


Independence County6


Ouachita County6


Arkansas County6


Prairie County6


Crittenden County6


Jefferson County6


Jackson County6


Randolph County6


Sevier County6


Cross County6


Perry County6


Mississippi County6


White County6


Lawrence County6


Greene County6


Clay County6


Johnson County6


Little River County6


Ashley County6


Montgomery County6


Lincoln County6


Cleveland County6


Stone County6


Sharp County6


Dallas County6


Union County6


St. Francis County6


Yell County6


Madison County6


Hot Spring County6


Scott County6


Conway County6


Izard County6


Carroll County6


Boone County6


Craighead County6


Washington County6


Baxter County6


Howard County6


Logan County6


Hempstead County6


Pope County6


Cleburne County6


Chicot County6


Grant County6


Garland County6


Crawford County6


Fulton County6


Lonoke County6


Marion County6


Pulaski County6


Saline County6


Benton County6


Sebastian County6


Van Buren County6


Polk County6


Franklin County6


Faulkner County6


Columbia County6


Miller County6


Clark County6


Bradley County6 Calhoun County6 Lafayette County6 Lee County6 Nevada County6 Newton County6 Pike County6 Searcy County6 Woodruff County6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 06/07/2023 2:45 pm.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.
Trend
Rising when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is above 0.
Stable when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change includes 0.
Falling when 95% confidence interval of average annual percent change is below 0.

⋔ 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.