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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for North Carolina by County

Melanoma of the Skin (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

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

Sorted by Percentlate

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


North Carolina6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Moore County6


Durham County6


Catawba County6


Rowan County6


Orange County6


Cabarrus County6


Lincoln County6


Randolph County6


Guilford County6


Wake County6


Mecklenburg County6


Henderson County6


Forsyth County6


Buncombe County6


Surry County6


Iredell County6


Johnston County6


Stanly County6


Chatham County6


Cumberland County6


Wilkes County6


Caldwell County6


Davidson County6


Brunswick County6


New Hanover County6


Cleveland County6


Haywood County6


Wayne County6


Gaston County6


Rockingham County6


Harnett County6


Pitt County6


Pender County6


Macon County6


Carteret County6


Alamance County6


Burke County6


Union County6


Columbus County6


Onslow County6


Alexander County6


McDowell County6


Cherokee County6


Alleghany County6 Anson County6 Ashe County6 Avery County6 Beaufort County6 Bertie County6 Bladen County6 Camden County6 Caswell County6 Chowan County6 Clay County6 Craven County6 Currituck County6 Dare County6 Davie County6 Duplin County6 Edgecombe County6 Franklin County6 Gates County6 Graham County6 Granville County6 Greene County6 Halifax County6 Hertford County6 Hoke County6 Hyde County6 Jackson County6 Jones County6 Lee County6 Lenoir County6 Madison County6 Martin County6 Mitchell County6 Montgomery County6 Nash County6 Northampton County6 Pamlico County6 Pasquotank County6 Perquimans County6 Person County6 Polk County6 Richmond County6 Robeson County6 Rutherford County6 Sampson County6 Scotland County6 Stokes County6 Swain County6 Transylvania County6 Tyrrell County6 Vance County6 Warren County6 Washington County6 Watauga County6 Wilson County6 Yadkin County6 Yancey County6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 11/06/2024 6:30 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.

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.
⋔ 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).

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