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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2018-2022

Tennessee 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

Benton County		 Priority 2: rising and similar

Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Bedford County
Blount County
Bradley County
Campbell County
Carroll County
Cheatham County
Chester County
Claiborne County
Coffee County
Crockett County
Dickson County
Dyer County
Gibson County
Grainger County
Greene County
Hardeman County
Hawkins County
Haywood County
Henderson County
Henry County
Hickman County
Humphreys County
Johnson County
Lauderdale County
Lawrence County
Macon County
Madison County
Marshall County
McMinn County
McNairy County
Meigs County
Monroe County
Morgan County
Obion County
Overton County
Polk County
Putnam County
Rhea County
Sevier County
Smith County
Stewart County
Tipton County
Trousdale County
Unicoi County
Warren County
Weakley County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Bledsoe County
Cannon County
Clay County
Cumberland County
DeKalb County
Decatur County
Fentress County
Giles County
Grundy County
Hancock County
Hardin County
Houston County
Jackson County
Lake County
Lewis County
Lincoln County
Moore County
Pickett County
Sequatchie County
Union County
Van Buren County
Wayne County
White County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Anderson County
Cocke County
Hamblen County
Montgomery County
Robertson County
Scott County
Shelby County
Sullivan County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Carter County
Davidson County
Fayette County
Franklin County
Hamilton County
Jefferson County
Knox County
Loudon County
Marion County
Maury County
Perry County
Roane County
Rutherford County
Sumner County
Washington County
Wilson County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Williamson County
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 09/07/2024 12:47 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 5.1. 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).


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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