State Cancer Profiles

Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Maine by County

Kidney & Renal Pelvis (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 17.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.3 to 18.0 and 324 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is rising because the trend is 0.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 0.3 to 1.6.

US (SEER+NPCR)¹

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 17.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 17.0 to 17.1 and 64,622 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : N/A
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 0.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.6 to 1.0.

Waldo County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 22.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.8 to 29.6 and 12 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 1 (1, 12)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 1.9 with a 95% confidence interval from -1.0 to 4.9.

Androscoggin County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 21.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 18.5 to 25.8 and 30 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 2 (1, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -4.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -20.5 to 14.9.

Oxford County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 21.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.9 to 27.1 and 17 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 3 (1, 12)
• Recent Trend : The trend is rising because the trend is 5.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 3.3 to 8.4.

Penobscot County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 21.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 18.3 to 24.5 and 42 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 4 (1, 9)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 2.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.1 to 4.1.

Aroostook County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 20.1 with a 95% confidence interval from 16.2 to 24.7 and 22 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 5 (1, 12)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 2.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -0.4 to 4.5.

Washington County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 20.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 14.3 to 27.4 and 10 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 6 (1, 15)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is 1.2 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.3 to 4.8.

Knox County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 19.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 14.7 to 25.2 and 13 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 7 (1, 15)
• Recent Trend : The trend is rising because the trend is 5.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 1.5 to 8.7.

Lincoln County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 18.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.1 to 25.7 and 10 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 8 (1, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is rising because the trend is 3.9 with a 95% confidence interval from 0.7 to 7.3.

Piscataquis County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 17.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 11.5 to 27.1 and 5 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 9 (1, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is rising because the trend is 5.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 0.3 to 11.6.

Somerset County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 17.3 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.3 to 22.4 and 13 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 10 (2, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -1.0 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.4 to 1.5.

Franklin County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 15.6 with a 95% confidence interval from 10.2 to 23.0 and 6 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 11 (2, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -2.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -5.7 to 1.1.

Kennebec County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 15.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 12.6 to 18.3 and 26 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 12 (6, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.2 to 1.4.

York County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 15.2 with a 95% confidence interval from 13.1 to 17.5 and 44 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 13 (7, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.6 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.3 to 1.1.

Hancock County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 14.5 with a 95% confidence interval from 11.0 to 19.0 and 13 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 14 (6, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.1 with a 95% confidence interval from -3.1 to 2.9.

Cumberland County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 13.7 with a 95% confidence interval from 12.1 to 15.5 and 54 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 15 (10, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -0.7 with a 95% confidence interval from -2.4 to 0.9.

Sagadahoc County⁶

• Met Healthy People Objective of ***? : ***
• Rate : The incidence rate is 13.0 with a 95% confidence interval from 9.1 to 18.5 and 7 average annual cases over 2014-2018.
• CI*Rank⋔ : 16 (7, 16)
• Recent Trend : The trend is stable because the trend is -2.7 with a 95% confidence interval from -6.3 to 1.2.

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/05/2022 4:00 pm.

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.