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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Mississippi by County

All Cancer Sites (All Stages^), 2017-2021

All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, Ages <65

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:

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


Other Notes


Line by Line Interpretation of the Report


Mississippi6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Greene County6


Oktibbeha County6


Lafayette County6


Winston County6


Adams County6


Alcorn County6


Clarke County6


George County6


Leake County6


Lincoln County6


Attala County6


Rankin County6


Tate County6


Franklin County6


Lamar County6


DeSoto County6


Lauderdale County6


Stone County6


Scott County6


Harrison County6


Warren County6


Wayne County6


Claiborne County6


Clay County6


Tippah County6


Wilkinson County6


Madison County6


Newton County6


Neshoba County6


Lowndes County6


Marshall County6


Bolivar County6


Jackson County6


Tallahatchie County6


Yazoo County6


Hancock County6


Noxubee County6


Chickasaw County6


Kemper County6


Simpson County6


Jones County6


Itawamba County6


Pike County6


Copiah County6


Panola County6


Walthall County6


Sunflower County6


Sharkey County6


Webster County6


Amite County6


Carroll County6


Lee County6


Forrest County6


Pontotoc County6


Prentiss County6


Union County6


Pearl River County6


Washington County6


Choctaw County6


Jefferson County6


Jasper County6


Montgomery County6


Holmes County6


Lawrence County6


Hinds County6


Marion County6


Calhoun County6


Leflore County6


Monroe County6


Covington County6


Tunica County6


Perry County6


Benton County6


Smith County6


Yalobusha County6


Tishomingo County6


Humphreys County6


Jefferson Davis County6


Coahoma County6


Grenada County6


Quitman County6


Issaquena County6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/24/2025 8:52 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.

† 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.
‡ Incidence data come from different sources. The Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) is based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period used in the calculation of the joinpoint regression model may differ for selected counties.

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).
1 Source: National Program of Cancer Registries and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results SEER*Stat Database - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute. Based on the 2023 submission.
6 Source: National Program of Cancer Registries SEER*Stat Database - United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (based on the 2023 submission).
8 Source: Incidence data provided by the SEER Program. AAPCs are calculated by the Joinpoint Regression Program and are based on APCs. Data 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 US Population Data File is used with SEER November 2023 data.

Data for the United States does not include data from Indiana.
Data for the United States does not include Puerto Rico.