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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2019-2023

Missouri Counties versus United States

All Cancer Sites

All Races, Female
  Above US Rate Similar to US Rate Below US Rate
Rising
Trend		 Priority 1: rising and above

Laclede County
Ripley County		 Priority 2: rising and similar

Grundy County		 Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Benton County
Buchanan County
Butler County
Callaway County
Clinton County
Crawford County
Dent County
Douglas County
Dunklin County
Gentry County
Howell County
Iron County
Jasper County
Lafayette County
Lawrence County
Lincoln County
Linn County
Macon County
Madison County
McDonald County
New Madrid County
Oregon County
Ozark County
Pemiscot County
Pettis County
Phelps County
Polk County
Pulaski County
Randolph County
Ray County
Saline County
Shannon County
St. Francois County
Stoddard County
Warren County
Washington County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Adair County
Andrew County
Atchison County
Audrain County
Barry County
Barton County
Bates County
Bollinger County
Caldwell County
Camden County
Carroll County
Carter County
Cedar County
Chariton County
Clark County
Cooper County
Dade County
Daviess County
DeKalb County
Gasconade County
Harrison County
Henry County
Hickory County
Knox County
Lewis County
Livingston County
Mercer County
Miller County
Mississippi County
Moniteau County
Monroe County
Morgan County
Nodaway County
Osage County
Perry County
Pike County
Putnam County
Ralls County
Reynolds County
Schuyler County
Scotland County
Scott County
St. Clair County
Ste. Genevieve County
Stone County
Sullivan County
Texas County
Vernon County
Wayne County
Webster County
Wright County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Jefferson County
Newton County
St. Louis City		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Boone County
Cape Girardeau County
Cass County
Christian County
Clay County
Cole County
Dallas County
Franklin County
Greene County
Howard County
Jackson County
Johnson County
Maries County
Marion County
Montgomery County
Shelby County
St. Charles County
St. Louis County
Taney County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Platte County
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/13/2026 9:10 pm.

Trend2
     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.
Rate Comparison
     Above    when 95% confident the rate is above and Rate Ratio3 > 1.10
     Similar    when unable to conclude above or below with confidence.
     Below    when 95% confident the rate is below and Rate Ratio3 < 0.90

1 Priority indices were created by ordering from rates that are rising and above the comparison rate to rates that are falling and below the comparison rate.
2 Recent trend in death rates is usually an Average Annual Percent Change (AAPC) based on the APCs calculated by Joinpoint. Due to data availability issues, the time period and/or calculation method used in the calculation of the trends may differ for selected geographic areas.
3 Rate ratio is the county rate divided by the US rate. Previous versions of this table used one-year rates for states and five-year rates for counties. As of June 2018, only five-year rates are used.
Source: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (20 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85-89, 90+). The Healthy People 2030 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The US Population Data File is used with mortality data.
Note: 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. Suppression is used to avoid misinterpretation when rates are unstable.

State Cancer Registries may provide more current or more local data. Data presented on the State Cancer Profiles Web Site may differ from statistics reported by the State Cancer Registries (for more information).

Data for the following has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate and trend estimates:
Worth County

Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year:
Holt County

Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer 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 do not include Puerto Rico.

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