State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Maine by County

All Cancer Sites (All Stages^), 2014-2018

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

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.

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

• Rising when 95% confidence interval of AAPC/APC is above 0.
• Stable when 95% confidence interval of AAPC/APC includes 0.
• Falling when 95% confidence interval of AAPC/APC is below 0.

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

• Average Annual Percent Change - AAPCs are based upon APCs that were calculated by Joinpoint Regression Program
• Annual Percent Change - APCs calculated in SEER*Stat.

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

Maine⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 476.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 471.4 to 480.6 and 8,998 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.9 to 0.1.

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 448.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 448.3 to 448.9 and 1,703,249 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.1 to -0.7.

Piscataquis County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 523.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 483.4 to 567.1 and 151 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.1 to 0.8.

Penobscot County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 520.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 505.5 to 535.1 and 1,040 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 4)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.4 to 1.7.

Washington County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 504.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 475.6 to 535.3 and 258 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 11)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.2 to -0.9.

Hancock County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 501.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 478.8 to 524.1 and 437 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.8 to -0.4.

York County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 487.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 475.9 to 499.9 and 1,399 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (3, 10)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.2 to -0.5.

Knox County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 486.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 460.4 to 513.0 and 311 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (2, 14)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.5 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.1 to 0.2.

Somerset County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 477.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 454.4 to 501.6 and 351 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (3, 15)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.8 to -0.1.

Waldo County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 474.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 448.8 to 502.4 and 278 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (3, 15)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.6 to -0.3.

Androscoggin County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 474.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 457.7 to 491.5 and 651 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (4, 14)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.7 to -0.7.

Aroostook County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 470.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 450.6 to 490.3 and 502 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (4, 15)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -0.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.3 to -0.4.

Oxford County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 463.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 442.2 to 485.1 and 406 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 11 (5, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.7 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.6 to 0.1.

Franklin County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 462.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 432.8 to 494.6 and 201 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 12 (3, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -1.5 with a 95% confidence interval from -6.3 to 3.5.

Kennebec County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 459.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 445.0 to 475.3 and 781 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 13 (7, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.6 to -0.5.

Cumberland County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 455.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 445.6 to 465.5 and 1,741 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 14 (9, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.5 to -0.8.

Lincoln County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 447.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 420.9 to 474.8 and 264 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 15 (7, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.6 to 0.3.

Sagadahoc County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 430.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 404.5 to 457.6 and 227 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 16 (11, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is falling because the trend is -1.5 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.5 to -0.4.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/19/2022 11:13 am.

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 1969-2018 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 stage.

Source: SEER and NPCR data. For more specific information please see the table.

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.

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.