Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
Above US Rate | Similar to US Rate | Below US Rate | |
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Rising Trend |
Priority 1: rising ![]() ![]() |
Priority 2: rising ![]() ![]() |
Priority 3: rising ![]() ![]() |
Stable Trend |
Priority 4: stable ![]() ![]() Chicot County Clark County Clay County Cross County Desha County Drew County Fulton County Grant County Greene County Jackson County Lawrence County Pike County Randolph County Scott County Sharp County Stone County |
Priority 6: stable ![]() ![]() Calhoun County Lincoln County Montgomery County Perry County Woodruff County |
Priority 7: stable ![]() ![]() |
Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling ![]() ![]() Arkansas County Ashley County Baxter County Boone County Columbia County Craighead County Crawford County Crittenden County Dallas County Hempstead County Hot Spring County Jefferson County Lee County Logan County Lonoke County Marion County Miller County Mississippi County Monroe County Ouachita County Phillips County Poinsett County Polk County Pope County Pulaski County Searcy County Sebastian County Union County White County Yell County |
Priority 8: falling ![]() ![]() Benton County Bradley County Carroll County Cleburne County Cleveland County Conway County Faulkner County Franklin County Garland County Howard County Independence County Izard County Johnson County Lafayette County Little River County Madison County Nevada County Newton County Prairie County Saline County Sevier County St. Francis County Van Buren County Washington County |
Priority 9: falling ![]() ![]() |
Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/09/2025 10:37 am. Trend2 Rising ![]() Stable ![]() Falling ![]() Rate Comparison Above ![]() Similar ![]() Below ![]() 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 5.3.0. 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. |