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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Tennessee by County

All Cancer Sites, 2010-2014

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:

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


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


    Tennessee6,10


    US (SEER+NPCR)1,10


    Hancock County6,10


    Humphreys County6,10


    Scott County6,10


    Union County6,10


    Lewis County6,10


    Benton County6,10


    Cheatham County6,10


    Marion County6,10


    Claiborne County6,10


    Trousdale County6,10


    Fentress County6,10


    Polk County6,10


    Houston County6,10


    Sequatchie County6,10


    Rhea County6,10


    Hawkins County6,10


    Stewart County6,10


    White County6,10


    Carroll County6,10


    Campbell County6,10


    Grainger County6,10


    Sevier County6,10


    Robertson County6,10


    Meigs County6,10


    Marshall County6,10


    Anderson County6,10


    Henry County6,10


    Loudon County6,10


    Lauderdale County6,10


    Dickson County6,10


    Blount County6,10


    Perry County6,10


    Tipton County6,10


    Macon County6,10


    Morgan County6,10


    Hickman County6,10


    Roane County6,10


    Hamblen County6,10


    Cannon County6,10


    Overton County6,10


    Henderson County6,10


    Hardeman County6,10


    Knox County6,10


    Cocke County6,10


    Sumner County6,10


    Sullivan County6,10


    Cumberland County6,10


    Franklin County6,10


    Grundy County6,10


    Unicoi County6,10


    Maury County6,10


    Coffee County6,10


    Greene County6,10


    Wilson County6,10


    Bledsoe County6,10


    Giles County6,10


    Jefferson County6,10


    McNairy County6,10


    Monroe County6,10


    Shelby County6,10


    Davidson County6,10


    Bedford County6,10


    Hamilton County6,10


    Bradley County6,10


    Pickett County6,10


    Haywood County6,10


    Fayette County6,10


    Warren County6,10


    Rutherford County6,10


    Smith County6,10


    McMinn County6,10


    Washington County6,10


    Gibson County6,10


    Lawrence County6,10


    Van Buren County6,10


    Decatur County6,10


    Montgomery County6,10


    Hardin County6,10


    Putnam County6,10


    Williamson County6,10


    Johnson County6,10


    Obion County6,10


    Lake County6,10


    Weakley County6,10


    Crockett County6,10


    Wayne County6,10


    Madison County6,10


    Clay County6,10


    Dyer County6,10


    Jackson County6,10


    DeKalb County6,10


    Chester County6,10


    Carter County6,10


    Moore County6,10


    Lincoln County6,10




    Notes:
    Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 08/19/2017 9:13 am.
    Data for the United States does not include data from Nevada

    *** No Healthy People 2020 Objective for this cancer.

    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 1969-2015 US Population Data File is used for SEER and NPCR incidence rates.
    ‡ Incidence data come from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each area for additional information.
    Healthy People 2020 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


    1 Source: CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2016 data submission and SEER November 2016 submission as published in United States Cancer Statistics.
    6 Source: State Cancer Registry and the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2016 data submission.
    10 Source: Incidence data provided by the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). EAPCs calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Rates 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 1969-2015 US Population Data File is used with NPCR November 2016 data.

    Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availablility, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.

    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.