Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
| 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 Butler County Webster County |
Priority 6: stable and similar Boone County Box Butte County Brown County Burt County Chase County Cheyenne County Clay County Cuming County Custer County Dawes County Fillmore County Hitchcock County Jefferson County Johnson County Kimball County Knox County Merrick County Nance County Nemaha County Pawnee County Perkins County Phelps County Pierce County Richardson County Saline County Sheridan County Sherman County Stanton County Thurston County Valley County Wayne County |
Priority 7: stable and below Colfax County |
| Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above Dodge County |
Priority 8: falling and similar Adams County Antelope County Buffalo County Cass County Cherry County Dakota County Dawson County Dixon County Douglas County Franklin County Furnas County Gage County Hall County Hamilton County Holt County Howard County Kearney County Keith County Lancaster County Lincoln County Madison County Nuckolls County Otoe County Platte County Red Willow County Sarpy County Saunders County Scotts Bluff County Seward County Thayer County Washington County York County |
Priority 9: falling and below Cedar County Morrill County Polk County |
| Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/19/2024 10:55 am. 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 > 1.10Similar when unable to conclude above or below with confidence.Below when 95% confident the rate is below and Rate Ratio3 < 0.901 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: Arthur County, Banner County, Blaine County, Deuel County, Dundy County, Frontier County, Garden County, Garfield County, Gosper County, Grant County, Greeley County, Hayes County, Hooker County, Keya Paha County, Logan County, Loup County, McPherson County, Rock County, Sioux County, Thomas County, Wheeler County Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year: Boyd County, Harlan 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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