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Interpretation of Incidence Rates Data

Incidence Rate Report for West Virginia by County

Melanoma of the Skin (Late Stage^), 2016-2020

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.

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


West Virginia6


US (SEER+NPCR)1


Monongalia County6


Raleigh County6


Wood County6


Cabell County6


Berkeley County6


Harrison County6


Mercer County6


Kanawha County6


Barbour County6 Boone County6 Braxton County6 Brooke County6 Calhoun County6 Clay County6 Doddridge County6 Fayette County6 Gilmer County6 Grant County6 Greenbrier County6 Hampshire County6 Hancock County6 Hardy County6 Jackson County6 Jefferson County6 Lewis County6 Lincoln County6 Logan County6 Marion County6 Marshall County6 Mason County6 McDowell County6 Mineral County6 Mingo County6 Monroe County6 Morgan County6 Nicholas County6 Ohio County6 Pendleton County6 Pleasants County6 Pocahontas County6 Preston County6 Putnam County6 Randolph County6 Ritchie County6 Roane County6 Summers County6 Taylor County6 Tucker County6 Tyler County6 Upshur County6 Wayne County6 Webster County6 Wetzel County6 Wirt County6 Wyoming County6

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/19/2024 3:04 am.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data.

Data cannot be shown for the following areas. For more information on what areas are suppressed or not available, please refer to the table.
Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Jackson, Jefferson, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Mason, McDowell, Mineral, Mingo, Monroe, Morgan, Nicholas, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Putnam, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Summers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wetzel, Wirt, Wyoming

† 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.
* 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).

Source: SEER and NPCR data. For more specific information please see the table.
Data for the United States does not include data from Nevada.
Data for the 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.