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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2016-2020

Iowa Counties versus United States

All Cancer Sites

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

Priority 2: rising and similar

Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Cass County
Ida County
Mahaska County
Marion County
Monroe County
Montgomery County
Palo Alto County
Ringgold County
Tama County
Union County
Van Buren County
Wayne County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Adair County
Adams County
Allamakee County
Appanoose County
Audubon County
Boone County
Calhoun County
Carroll County
Cherokee County
Chickasaw County
Clarke County
Davis County
Decatur County
Dubuque County
Emmet County
Franklin County
Greene County
Grundy County
Guthrie County
Howard County
Louisa County
Mills County
Osceola County
Page County
Pocahontas County
Sac County
Shelby County
Taylor County
Washington County
Winnebago County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Lee County
Muscatine County
Pottawattamie County
Wapello County
Woodbury County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Benton County
Black Hawk County
Bremer County
Buchanan County
Buena Vista County
Butler County
Cedar County
Cerro Gordo County
Clay County
Clayton County
Clinton County
Crawford County
Delaware County
Des Moines County
Dickinson County
Fayette County
Floyd County
Fremont County
Hamilton County
Hardin County
Harrison County
Henry County
Humboldt County
Iowa County
Jackson County
Jasper County
Jefferson County
Jones County
Keokuk County
Kossuth County
Linn County
Lucas County
Lyon County
Madison County
Marshall County
Mitchell County
Monona County
O'Brien County
Plymouth County
Polk County
Poweshiek County
Scott County
Story County
Warren County
Webster County
Worth County
Wright County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Dallas County
Hancock County
Johnson County
Sioux County
Winneshiek County
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 09/22/2023 4:44 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 Version 4.8.0.0. 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 (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). The Healthy People 2020 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).


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 does not include Puerto Rico.

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