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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2016-2020

Kentucky 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

Allen County
Anderson County
Bath County
Breathitt County
Butler County
Carlisle County
Carroll County
Casey County
Clay County
Clinton County
Crittenden County
Cumberland County
Estill County
Fleming County
Gallatin County
Grayson County
Green County
Hancock County
Harlan County
Harrison County
Hart County
Henry County
Jackson County
Johnson County
Knott County
Knox County
Larue County
Laurel County
Lawrence County
Lee County
Leslie County
Lewis County
Livingston County
Martin County
Mason County
Menifee County
Metcalfe County
Monroe County
Morgan County
Nicholas County
Owsley County
Perry County
Powell County
Rockcastle County
Rowan County
Russell County
Simpson County
Taylor County
Todd County
Washington County
Whitley County
Wolfe County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Bracken County
Calloway County
Hickman County
Robertson County
Trimble County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Adair County
Barren County
Bell County
Bourbon County
Boyd County
Boyle County
Breckinridge County
Campbell County
Carter County
Christian County
Clark County
Daviess County
Floyd County
Franklin County
Fulton County
Garrard County
Grant County
Graves County
Greenup County
Hardin County
Henderson County
Hopkins County
Jefferson County
Kenton County
Letcher County
Lincoln County
Logan County
Madison County
Magoffin County
Marion County
Marshall County
McCracken County
McCreary County
McLean County
Meade County
Mercer County
Montgomery County
Muhlenberg County
Nelson County
Ohio County
Pendleton County
Pike County
Pulaski County
Union County
Warren County
Wayne County
Webster County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Ballard County
Boone County
Bullitt County
Caldwell County
Edmonson County
Elliott County
Fayette County
Jessamine County
Lyon County
Oldham County
Owen County
Scott County
Shelby County
Spencer County
Trigg County
Woodford County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 09/24/2023 4:13 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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