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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2016-2020

Mississippi 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

Attala County
Bolivar County
Chickasaw County
Claiborne County
Covington County
DeSoto County
Grenada County
Hinds County
Holmes County
Jefferson County
Lawrence County
Leflore County
Montgomery County
Perry County
Prentiss County
Sunflower County
Tallahatchie County
Tippah County
Union County
Washington County
Wilkinson County
Yazoo County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Benton County
Calhoun County
Carroll County
Clarke County
Kemper County
Noxubee County
Walthall County
Webster County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Adams County
Alcorn County
Clay County
Coahoma County
Copiah County
Forrest County
George County
Harrison County
Jackson County
Jefferson Davis County
Leake County
Lee County
Lincoln County
Lowndes County
Madison County
Marion County
Marshall County
Monroe County
Neshoba County
Panola County
Pearl River County
Pike County
Pontotoc County
Quitman County
Scott County
Sharkey County
Stone County
Tate County
Tishomingo County
Tunica County
Warren County
Yalobusha County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Amite County
Choctaw County
Franklin County
Greene County
Hancock County
Humphreys County
Itawamba County
Jasper County
Jones County
Lafayette County
Lamar County
Lauderdale County
Newton County
Oktibbeha County
Rankin County
Simpson County
Smith County
Wayne County
Winston County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 09/25/2023 4:20 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).

Data for the following has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate and trend estimates:
Issaquena 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 does not include Puerto Rico.

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