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 Allen Parish Beauregard Parish East Carroll Parish Evangeline Parish Franklin Parish Jackson Parish Madison Parish Morehouse Parish Plaquemines Parish Tensas Parish Union Parish Vernon Parish Webster Parish |
Priority 6: stable and similar Assumption Parish Bienville Parish Caldwell Parish Cameron Parish Catahoula Parish Claiborne Parish Concordia Parish East Feliciana Parish La Salle Parish Natchitoches Parish Red River Parish Sabine Parish St. Helena Parish St. Mary Parish West Carroll Parish |
Priority 7: stable and below |
| Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above Acadia Parish Avoyelles Parish Caddo Parish Iberia Parish Ouachita Parish St. Bernard Parish St. Landry Parish St. Martin Parish Tangipahoa Parish Terrebonne Parish Vermilion Parish Washington Parish |
Priority 8: falling and similar Ascension Parish Bossier Parish Calcasieu Parish De Soto Parish East Baton Rouge Parish Grant Parish Iberville Parish Jefferson Davis Parish Jefferson Parish LaFourche Parish Lafayette Parish Lincoln Parish Livingston Parish Orleans Parish Pointe Coupee Parish Rapides Parish Richland Parish St. Charles Parish St. James Parish St. John the Baptist Parish St. Tammany Parish West Baton Rouge Parish West Feliciana Parish Winn Parish |
Priority 9: falling and below |
| Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/09/2025 8:44 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 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 parish 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. |
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