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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2016-2020

Georgia Counties versus United States

All Cancer Sites

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

Screven County		 Priority 2: rising and similar

Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Atkinson County
Bacon County
Brantley County
Bryan County
Butts County
Clinch County
Early County
Effingham County
Franklin County
Irwin County
Jasper County
Jefferson County
Lee County
Montgomery County
Turner County
Upson County
Warren County
Washington County
Wayne County
Wilkes County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Candler County
Crawford County
Evans County
Lowndes County
Miller County
Oglethorpe County
Quitman County
Stewart County
Towns County
Treutlen County
White County
Wilkinson County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Barrow County
Bartow County
Ben Hill County
Bibb County
Brooks County
Bulloch County
Burke County
Carroll County
Chattooga County
Coffee County
Colquitt County
Crisp County
Dade County
Decatur County
Dougherty County
Elbert County
Emanuel County
Floyd County
Gordon County
Jackson County
Lamar County
Laurens County
Lincoln County
McDuffie County
Meriwether County
Murray County
Muscogee County
Newton County
Peach County
Pierce County
Pike County
Polk County
Richmond County
Rockdale County
Spalding County
Stephens County
Sumter County
Tattnall County
Terrell County
Thomas County
Tift County
Toombs County
Troup County
Twiggs County
Walker County
Walton County
Ware County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Appling County
Baldwin County
Banks County
Berrien County
Bleckley County
Camden County
Catoosa County
Charlton County
Chatham County
Chattahoochee County
Cherokee County
Clarke County
Clay County
Clayton County
Columbia County
Cook County
Coweta County
Dawson County
DeKalb County
Dodge County
Dooly County
Douglas County
Fannin County
Fulton County
Gilmer County
Glynn County
Grady County
Greene County
Habersham County
Hall County
Hancock County
Haralson County
Harris County
Hart County
Heard County
Henry County
Houston County
Jeff Davis County
Jenkins County
Johnson County
Jones County
Lanier County
Liberty County
Long County
Lumpkin County
Macon County
Madison County
Marion County
McIntosh County
Mitchell County
Monroe County
Morgan County
Paulding County
Pickens County
Pulaski County
Putnam County
Rabun County
Randolph County
Schley County
Seminole County
Talbot County
Taylor County
Telfair County
Union County
Webster County
Wheeler County
Whitfield County
Wilcox County
Worth County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Calhoun County
Cobb County
Fayette County
Forsyth County
Gwinnett County
Oconee County
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/18/2024 5:06 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:
Echols County

Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year:
Baker County, Glascock County, Taliaferro 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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