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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
Above US Rate | Similar to US Rate | Below US Rate | |
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Rising Trend |
Priority 1: rising and above |
Priority 2: rising and similar |
Priority 3: rising and below |
Stable Trend |
Priority 4: stable and above Brooks County Effingham County Fannin County Laurens County Peach County Spalding County Stephens County Wayne County |
Priority 6: stable and similar Baldwin County Barrow County Bleckley County Bulloch County Burke County Coffee County Douglas County Elbert County Emanuel County Gilmer County Gordon County Greene County Habersham County Haralson County Jackson County Jones County Madison County McDuffie County Meriwether County Mitchell County Newton County Rockdale County Screven County Tattnall County Thomas County Tift County Toombs County Troup County Upson County Walton County Ware County Washington County |
Priority 7: stable and below |
Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above Carroll County Richmond County |
Priority 8: falling and similar Appling County Bartow County Bibb County Catoosa County Chatham County Cherokee County Clarke County Clayton County Cobb County Colquitt County Coweta County DeKalb County Dougherty County Fayette County Floyd County Fulton County Glynn County Gwinnett County Hall County Harris County Henry County Houston County Monroe County Muscogee County Paulding County Pickens County Polk County Putnam County Union County Walker County Whitfield County Worth County |
Priority 9: falling and below Columbia County Forsyth County Lowndes County |
Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 06/10/2024 8:24 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: Atkinson County, Bacon County, Baker County, Ben Hill County, Calhoun County, Candler County, Charlton County, Chattahoochee County, Clay County, Clinch County, Cook County, Dooly County, Early County, Echols County, Evans County, Glascock County, Hancock County, Heard County, Irwin County, Jenkins County, Johnson County, Lanier County, Lincoln County, Long County, Macon County, Marion County, McIntosh County, Miller County, Montgomery County, Oglethorpe County, Pierce County, Pulaski County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Schley County, Seminole County, Stewart County, Talbot County, Taliaferro County, Taylor County, Terrell County, Towns County, Treutlen County, Turner County, Twiggs County, Warren County, Webster County, Wheeler County, Wilcox County, Wilkinson County Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year: Banks County, Berrien County, Brantley County, Bryan County, Butts County, Camden County, Chattooga County, Crawford County, Crisp County, Dade County, Dawson County, Decatur County, Dodge County, Franklin County, Grady County, Hart County, Jasper County, Jeff Davis County, Jefferson County, Lamar County, Lee County, Liberty County, Lumpkin County, Morgan County, Murray County, Oconee County, Pike County, Rabun County, Sumter County, Telfair County, White County, Wilkes 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. |