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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2018-2022

Kentucky 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

Knox County
Leslie County
Lincoln County		 Priority 2: rising and similar

Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Adair County
Anderson County
Barren County
Bath County
Bell County
Bourbon County
Boyle County
Butler County
Calloway County
Clark County
Clay County
Clinton County
Cumberland County
Estill County
Fleming County
Floyd County
Grant County
Graves County
Grayson County
Green County
Hardin County
Harlan County
Hart County
Henderson County
Henry County
Johnson County
Knott County
Larue County
Laurel County
Lawrence County
Lee County
Lewis County
Livingston County
Logan County
Marshall County
Martin County
Mason County
McCreary County
Mercer County
Metcalfe County
Monroe County
Montgomery County
Morgan County
Nelson County
Ohio County
Owsley County
Perry County
Powell County
Pulaski County
Rockcastle County
Russell County
Taylor County
Todd County
Union County
Webster County
Whitley County
Wolfe County
Woodford County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Allen County
Ballard County
Bracken County
Breathitt County
Caldwell County
Carroll County
Crittenden County
Edmonson County
Elliott County
Fulton County
Gallatin County
Garrard County
Harrison County
Hickman County
Jackson County
Lyon County
Meade County
Menifee County
Nicholas County
Owen County
Pendleton County
Rowan County
Simpson County
Spencer County
Trigg County
Trimble County
Washington County
Wayne County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Boyd County
Campbell County
Carter County
Christian County
Greenup County
Hopkins County
Jefferson County
Kenton County
Madison County
Magoffin County
McCracken County
Pike County
Warren County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Boone County
Breckinridge County
Bullitt County
Casey County
Daviess County
Fayette County
Franklin County
Jessamine County
Letcher County
Marion County
McLean County
Muhlenberg County
Oldham County
Scott County
Shelby County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/08/2025 6:42 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 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).

Data for the following has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate and trend estimates:
Robertson County

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