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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, Female
  Above US Rate Similar to US Rate Below US Rate
Rising
Trend		 Priority 1: rising and above

Floyd County		 Priority 2: rising and similar

Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Barrow County
Butts County
Chattooga County
Crawford County
Gordon County
Jefferson County
Madison County
Murray County
Newton County
Polk County
Seminole County
Spalding County
Stephens County
Sumter County
Thomas County
Tift County
Toombs County
Upson County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Appling County
Atkinson County
Baker County
Baldwin County
Berrien County
Bleckley County
Brantley County
Brooks County
Burke County
Calhoun County
Charlton County
Clay County
Clinch County
Coffee County
Cook County
Crisp County
Dade County
Dawson County
Dodge County
Effingham County
Emanuel County
Evans County
Fannin County
Franklin County
Greene County
Hancock County
Haralson County
Hart County
Heard County
Jasper County
Jenkins County
Johnson County
Jones County
Laurens County
Lee County
Lumpkin County
Macon County
Marion County
McDuffie County
Meriwether County
Miller County
Mitchell County
Morgan County
Oglethorpe County
Pickens County
Pierce County
Pike County
Rabun County
Screven County
Stewart County
Taylor County
Terrell County
Turner County
Twiggs County
Ware County
Warren County
Washington County
Wheeler County
White County
Wilcox County
Wilkes County
Wilkinson County
Worth County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Banks County
Towns County
Union County
Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Bryan County
Henry County
Muscogee County
Peach County
Richmond County
Wayne County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Bacon County
Bartow County
Ben Hill County
Bibb County
Bulloch County
Camden County
Candler County
Carroll County
Catoosa County
Chatham County
Cherokee County
Clarke County
Clayton County
Cobb County
Colquitt County
Columbia County
Coweta County
Decatur County
Dooly County
Dougherty County
Douglas County
Early County
Elbert County
Fulton County
Gilmer County
Glynn County
Grady County
Gwinnett County
Habersham County
Hall County
Harris County
Houston County
Irwin County
Jackson County
Jeff Davis County
Lamar County
Liberty County
Lincoln County
Long County
Lowndes County
McIntosh County
Monroe County
Montgomery County
Paulding County
Putnam County
Randolph County
Rockdale County
Talbot County
Tattnall County
Telfair County
Troup County
Walker County
Walton County
Whitfield County		 Priority 9: falling and below

DeKalb County
Fayette County
Forsyth County
Oconee County
Pulaski County
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/26/2024 11:49 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 > 1.10
     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, Schley County, Taliaferro County, Webster County

Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year:
Chattahoochee County, Glascock County, Lanier County, Quitman County, Treutlen 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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