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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for Texas by County

Oral Cavity & Pharynx (Late Stage^), 2017-2021

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

Sorted by CI*Rank

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


Texas3


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Webb County7


Cameron County7


El Paso County7


Hidalgo County7


Fort Bend County7


Guadalupe County7


Medina County7


Bexar County7


Hays County7


Nueces County7


Tom Green County7


Caldwell County7


Harris County7


Travis County7


Van Zandt County7


Jefferson County7


Bastrop County7


Gillespie County7


Denton County7


Collin County7


Nacogdoches County7


Dallas County7


San Patricio County7


Wise County7


Johnson County7


Rusk County7


Brazoria County7


Brazos County7


Wharton County7


Kerr County7


Fannin County7


Angelina County7


Ellis County7


Midland County7


Lubbock County7


Tarrant County7


Montgomery County7


Williamson County7


Kendall County7


Atascosa County7


Anderson County7


Taylor County7


Wood County7


Hood County7


Smith County7


Parker County7


Waller County7


Lamar County7


Hardin County7


Randall County7


Hopkins County7


Ector County7


Bell County7


Liberty County7


Gregg County7


Grayson County7


San Jacinto County7


Upshur County7


Wichita County7


Comal County7


Washington County7


Galveston County7


Coryell County7


Hunt County7


Burnet County7


Aransas County7


Navarro County7


Bowie County7


Cherokee County7


Rockwall County7


Chambers County7


McLennan County7


Harrison County7


Cooke County7


Kaufman County7


Brown County7


Howard County7


Victoria County7


Matagorda County7


Orange County7


Potter County7


Limestone County7


Bandera County7


Henderson County7


Grimes County7


Bee County7


Polk County7


Walker County7


Freestone County7


Palo Pinto County7


Trinity County7


Hill County7


Llano County7


Andrews County7 Archer County7 Armstrong County7 Austin County7 Bailey County7 Baylor County7 Blanco County7 Borden County7 Bosque County7 Brewster County7 Briscoe County7 Brooks County7 Burleson County7 Calhoun County7 Callahan County7 Camp County7 Carson County7 Cass County7 Castro County7 Childress County7 Clay County7 Cochran County7 Coke County7 Coleman County7 Collingsworth County7 Colorado County7 Comanche County7 Concho County7 Cottle County7 Crane County7 Crockett County7 Crosby County7 Culberson County7 Dallam County7 Dawson County7 DeWitt County7 Deaf Smith County7 Delta County7 Dickens County7 Dimmit County7 Donley County7 Duval County7 Eastland County7 Edwards County7 Erath County7 Falls County7 Fayette County7 Fisher County7 Floyd County7 Foard County7 Franklin County7 Frio County7 Gaines County7 Garza County7 Glasscock County7 Goliad County7 Gonzales County7 Gray County7 Hale County7 Hall County7 Hamilton County7 Hansford County7 Hardeman County7 Hartley County7 Haskell County7 Hemphill County7 Hockley County7 Houston County7 Hudspeth County7 Hutchinson County7 Irion County7 Jack County7 Jackson County7 Jasper County7 Jeff Davis County7 Jim Hogg County7 Jim Wells County7 Jones County7 Karnes County7 Kenedy County7 Kent County7 Kimble County7 King County7 Kinney County7 Kleberg County7 Knox County7 La Salle County7 Lamb County7 Lampasas County7 Lavaca County7 Lee County7 Leon County7 Lipscomb County7 Live Oak County7 Loving County7 Lynn County7 Madison County7 Marion County7 Martin County7 Mason County7 Maverick County7 McCulloch County7 McMullen County7 Menard County7 Milam County7 Mills County7 Mitchell County7 Montague County7 Moore County7 Morris County7 Motley County7 Newton County7 Nolan County7 Ochiltree County7 Oldham County7 Panola County7 Parmer County7 Pecos County7 Presidio County7 Rains County7 Reagan County7 Real County7 Red River County7 Reeves County7 Refugio County7 Roberts County7 Robertson County7 Runnels County7 Sabine County7 San Augustine County7 San Saba County7 Schleicher County7 Scurry County7 Shackelford County7 Shelby County7 Sherman County7 Somervell County7 Starr County7 Stephens County7 Sterling County7 Stonewall County7 Sutton County7 Swisher County7 Terrell County7 Terry County7 Throckmorton County7 Titus County7 Tyler County7 Upton County7 Uvalde County7 Val Verde County7 Ward County7 Wheeler County7 Wilbarger County7 Willacy County7 Wilson County7 Winkler County7 Yoakum County7 Young County7 Zapata County7 Zavala County7

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/14/2025 11:08 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.
3 Source: SEER November 2023 submission. State Cancer Registry also receives funding from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries.
7 Source: SEER November 2023 submission.

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