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Data Table for Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer

Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2016-2020

Georgia Counties versus United States

Colon & Rectum

All Races, Both Sexes

Sorted by rateratio
Counties
sort alphabetically by name ascending 		Priority Index1
1=highest
9=lowest
sort by priority index descending 		Recent Trend2
 County Death
Rate
Compared
to
US Rate
 Average Annual Count
sort by count descending 		Age-Adjusted Death Rate

deaths per 100,000
(95% Confidence Interval)
sort by rate descending 		Rate
Ratio3
County
to
US
sort by rate ascending 		Recent 5-Year Trend2 in Death Rates
(95% Confidence Interval)
sort by trend descending
United States - falling falling trend - 52,152 13.1 (13.1, 13.2) - -1.9 (-2.1, -1.8)
Georgia - falling falling trend - 1,593 14.1 (13.7, 14.4) - -3.1 (-4.5, -1.6)
Stephens County 4 stable stable trend higher 10 31.2 (22.9, 41.6) 2.4 1.5 (-0.1, 3.2)
Brooks County 4 stable stable trend higher 5 25.4 (16.1, 38.3) 1.9 0.1 (-1.8, 2.0)
Fannin County 4 stable stable trend higher 10 22.1 (15.8, 30.6) 1.7 -1.2 (-2.9, 0.6)
Bleckley County 6 stable stable trend similar 4 21.5 (12.5, 35.1) 1.6 0.3 (-1.9, 2.5)
Wayne County 4 stable stable trend higher 8 20.4 (14.3, 28.3) 1.6 0.5 (-1.2, 2.3)
Peach County 4 stable stable trend higher 7 20.2 (13.9, 28.6) 1.5 -0.1 (-1.3, 1.1)
Greene County 6 stable stable trend similar 5 20.1 (12.1, 31.6) 1.5 -0.6 (-2.7, 1.5)
Effingham County 4 stable stable trend higher 12 20.0 (15.0, 26.0) 1.5 0.7 (-0.9, 2.3)
Haralson County 6 stable stable trend similar 7 19.8 (13.7, 27.8) 1.5 -0.1 (-1.6, 1.5)
Spalding County 4 stable stable trend higher 17 19.7 (15.6, 24.6) 1.5 -0.3 (-1.5, 0.8)
Washington County 6 stable stable trend similar 5 19.3 (12.2, 29.3) 1.5 31.7 (-10.4, 93.5)
Emanuel County 6 stable stable trend similar 6 19.3 (12.6, 28.4) 1.5 -1.5 (-3.3, 0.2)
Burke County 6 stable stable trend similar 5 19.2 (12.2, 28.7) 1.5 -0.7 (-2.7, 1.4)
Meriwether County 6 stable stable trend similar 6 18.9 (12.5, 27.9) 1.4 0.1 (-1.2, 1.5)
Laurens County 4 stable stable trend higher 12 18.9 (14.2, 24.6) 1.4 1.1 (-0.4, 2.7)
Madison County 6 stable stable trend similar 7 18.3 (12.5, 26.1) 1.4 -0.9 (-2.9, 1.0)
Carroll County 5 falling falling trend higher 22 18.0 (14.7, 21.8) 1.4 -1.2 (-2.2, -0.1)
Upson County 6 stable stable trend similar 7 17.6 (12.1, 25.0) 1.3 -0.3 (-1.8, 1.2)
Mitchell County 6 stable stable trend similar 5 17.1 (10.7, 26.1) 1.3 -1.0 (-2.2, 0.3)
Appling County 8 falling falling trend similar 4 17.1 (10.4, 26.8) 1.3 -2.4 (-4.4, -0.4)
Ware County 6 stable stable trend similar 7 16.5 (11.5, 23.0) 1.3 -0.5 (-1.9, 1.0)
Screven County 6 stable stable trend similar 3 16.4 (9.4, 27.3) 1.3 -1.2 (-3.0, 0.5)
Gordon County 6 stable stable trend similar 11 16.4 (12.2, 21.5) 1.2 -1.2 (-2.7, 0.3)
Troup County 6 stable stable trend similar 13 16.0 (12.2, 20.7) 1.2 -0.6 (-1.9, 0.6)
Jackson County 6 stable stable trend similar 12 16.0 (12.2, 20.6) 1.2 -0.8 (-2.0, 0.5)
Bulloch County 6 stable stable trend similar 11 16.0 (12.0, 20.9) 1.2 -0.4 (-1.6, 0.9)
Rockdale County 6 stable stable trend similar 16 16.0 (12.6, 20.0) 1.2 -1.1 (-2.3, 0.0)
Richmond County 5 falling falling trend higher 33 15.8 (13.4, 18.5) 1.2 -1.5 (-2.2, -0.8)
Walton County 6 stable stable trend similar 17 15.6 (12.5, 19.4) 1.2 -1.1 (-2.3, 0.1)
Baldwin County 6 stable stable trend similar 9 15.6 (11.2, 21.3) 1.2 -0.3 (-1.7, 1.2)
Barrow County 6 stable stable trend similar 13 15.5 (11.9, 19.9) 1.2 -0.3 (-1.9, 1.3)
Harris County 8 falling falling trend similar 7 15.4 (10.5, 21.9) 1.2 -3.0 (-4.7, -1.2)
Polk County 8 falling falling trend similar 8 15.3 (10.8, 21.2) 1.2 -1.6 (-3.0, -0.1)
Bibb County 8 falling falling trend similar 27 15.2 (12.7, 18.1) 1.2 -2.1 (-2.9, -1.3)
Muscogee County 8 falling falling trend similar 31 15.2 (12.9, 17.8) 1.2 -1.6 (-2.3, -0.9)
Elbert County 6 stable stable trend similar 4 15.1 (8.9, 24.4) 1.2 -1.5 (-3.4, 0.3)
McDuffie County 6 stable stable trend similar 4 15.1 (9.2, 23.6) 1.1 0.5 (-1.7, 2.8)
Toombs County 6 stable stable trend similar 5 15.0 (9.9, 22.2) 1.1 -1.0 (-2.6, 0.6)
Gilmer County 6 stable stable trend similar 7 15.0 (10.4, 21.3) 1.1 -1.7 (-3.7, 0.3)
Newton County 6 stable stable trend similar 17 15.0 (11.9, 18.7) 1.1 -1.1 (-2.3, 0.0)
Chatham County 8 falling falling trend similar 50 15.0 (13.1, 17.0) 1.1 -1.5 (-1.9, -1.0)
Cherokee County 8 falling falling trend similar 38 14.4 (12.4, 16.7) 1.1 -1.7 (-3.0, -0.5)
Putnam County 8 falling falling trend similar 5 14.3 (8.9, 22.3) 1.1 -2.5 (-3.9, -1.1)
Walker County 8 falling falling trend similar 13 14.3 (11.0, 18.4) 1.1 -1.5 (-2.9, 0.0)
Thomas County 6 stable stable trend similar 8 14.3 (10.2, 19.6) 1.1 -1.1 (-2.5, 0.2)
Clayton County 8 falling falling trend similar 33 14.2 (11.9, 16.8) 1.1 -1.0 (-1.8, -0.2)
Fulton County 8 falling falling trend similar 140 14.1 (13.0, 15.2) 1.1 -2.1 (-2.5, -1.7)
Henry County 8 falling falling trend similar 31 14.1 (11.8, 16.6) 1.1 -3.3 (-4.7, -1.9)
Douglas County 6 stable stable trend similar 19 13.9 (11.1, 17.1) 1.1 0.1 (-1.1, 1.3)
Houston County 8 falling falling trend similar 21 13.5 (11.0, 16.5) 1.0 -1.9 (-3.0, -0.8)
Jones County 6 stable stable trend similar 5 13.4 (8.5, 20.3) 1.0 -1.1 (-2.7, 0.6)
Bartow County 8 falling falling trend similar 15 13.2 (10.3, 16.6) 1.0 -2.0 (-3.1, -1.0)
Pickens County 8 falling falling trend similar 6 13.1 (8.7, 19.4) 1.0 -2.6 (-4.7, -0.5)
Habersham County 6 stable stable trend similar 8 13.0 (9.2, 18.0) 1.0 -1.5 (-3.0, 0.1)
Coffee County 6 stable stable trend similar 6 12.9 (8.7, 18.6) 1.0 -1.1 (-2.8, 0.6)
Tattnall County 6 stable stable trend similar 4 12.9 (7.6, 20.7) 1.0 -0.1 (-2.5, 2.3)
Fayette County 8 falling falling trend similar 18 12.9 (10.3, 16.0) 1.0 -2.8 (-3.9, -1.7)
Coweta County 8 falling falling trend similar 20 12.9 (10.4, 15.8) 1.0 -2.4 (-4.2, -0.6)
Tift County 6 stable stable trend similar 6 12.9 (8.5, 18.6) 1.0 -1.1 (-2.6, 0.4)
Dougherty County 8 falling falling trend similar 14 12.7 (9.8, 16.2) 1.0 -2.0 (-3.1, -0.9)
Floyd County 8 falling falling trend similar 15 12.7 (9.9, 16.0) 1.0 -1.5 (-2.6, -0.5)
Cobb County 8 falling falling trend similar 95 12.7 (11.5, 13.9) 1.0 -1.6 (-2.2, -1.1)
Union County 8 falling falling trend similar 6 12.7 (8.3, 19.4) 1.0 -2.0 (-3.9, -0.1)
Whitfield County 8 falling falling trend similar 14 12.6 (9.8, 16.0) 1.0 -1.6 (-2.7, -0.4)
Hall County 8 falling falling trend similar 28 12.3 (10.3, 14.6) 0.9 -1.4 (-2.4, -0.4)
Colquitt County 8 falling falling trend similar 7 12.3 (8.4, 17.4) 0.9 -1.9 (-3.2, -0.5)
Glynn County 8 falling falling trend similar 15 12.2 (9.5, 15.6) 0.9 -1.8 (-2.9, -0.7)
Clarke County 8 falling falling trend similar 13 12.2 (9.4, 15.6) 0.9 -2.1 (-3.2, -1.0)
Gwinnett County 8 falling falling trend similar 94 12.0 (10.9, 13.2) 0.9 -2.1 (-2.5, -1.7)
DeKalb County 8 falling falling trend similar 90 11.9 (10.8, 13.1) 0.9 -1.7 (-2.1, -1.2)
Paulding County 8 falling falling trend similar 18 11.6 (9.2, 14.4) 0.9 -2.0 (-3.4, -0.6)
Worth County 8 falling falling trend similar 3 11.2 (6.3, 18.8) 0.9 -3.0 (-5.4, -0.6)
Catoosa County 8 falling falling trend similar 9 11.0 (8.0, 14.7) 0.8 -2.5 (-3.9, -1.0)
Forsyth County 9 falling falling trend lower 25 10.9 (9.0, 13.1) 0.8 -2.0 (-3.3, -0.7)
Lowndes County 9 falling falling trend lower 11 9.9 (7.5, 12.9) 0.8 -2.8 (-3.9, -1.7)
Monroe County 8 falling falling trend similar 3 9.5 (5.4, 15.7) 0.7 -2.9 (-5.1, -0.6)
Columbia County 9 falling falling trend lower 15 9.3 (7.3, 11.8) 0.7 -3.1 (-4.3, -1.9)
Banks County
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 		** similar 3 15.1 (8.6, 24.8) 1.1
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Berrien County
**
 		** similar 5 19.2 (12.2, 29.1) 1.5
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Brantley County
**
 		** similar 4 15.3 (8.8, 24.8) 1.2
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Bryan County
**
 		** similar 6 18.0 (12.0, 25.8) 1.4
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Butts County
**
 		** similar 6 20.8 (13.8, 30.1) 1.6
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Camden County
**
 		** similar 6 12.0 (8.0, 17.3) 0.9
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Chattooga County
**
 		** similar 5 16.9 (11.0, 25.1) 1.3
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Crawford County
**
 		** higher 4 26.2 (15.5, 42.0) 2.0
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Crisp County
**
 		** similar 4 12.5 (7.3, 20.4) 1.0
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Dade County
**
 		** similar 3 14.8 (8.3, 25.0) 1.1
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Dawson County
**
 		** similar 6 16.5 (10.8, 24.5) 1.3
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Decatur County
**
 		** higher 7 21.1 (14.7, 29.5) 1.6
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Dodge County
**
 		** similar 6 19.4 (12.9, 28.3) 1.5
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Franklin County
**
 		** higher 7 22.6 (15.8, 31.6) 1.7
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Grady County
**
 		** higher 7 20.8 (14.2, 29.4) 1.6
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Hart County
**
 		** similar 7 16.6 (11.5, 23.8) 1.3
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Jasper County
**
 		** similar 3 17.5 (9.7, 29.5) 1.3
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Jeff Davis County
**
 		** similar 4 19.5 (11.7, 31.1) 1.5
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Jefferson County
**
 		** higher 6 28.4 (19.0, 41.2) 2.2
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Lamar County
**
 		** similar 4 16.9 (10.0, 26.9) 1.3
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Lee County
**
 		** similar 5 16.8 (10.5, 25.4) 1.3
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Liberty County
**
 		** similar 7 15.3 (10.5, 21.4) 1.2
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Lumpkin County
**
 		** similar 5 11.4 (7.2, 17.5) 0.9
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Morgan County
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 		** similar 4 15.6 (9.5, 24.6) 1.2
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Murray County
**
 		** similar 7 17.4 (12.1, 24.3) 1.3
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Oconee County
**
 		** lower 3 7.6 (4.4, 12.4) 0.6
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Pike County
**
 		** similar 3 15.5 (8.9, 25.3) 1.2
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Rabun County
**
 		** similar 6 16.3 (10.9, 24.8) 1.2
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Sumter County
**
 		** similar 7 19.3 (13.2, 27.4) 1.5
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Telfair County
**
 		** higher 5 22.8 (14.6, 34.5) 1.7
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White County
**
 		** similar 6 14.8 (9.5, 22.2) 1.1
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Wilkes County
**
 		** similar 4 23.7 (14.3, 38.5) 1.8
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Atkinson County
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3 or fewer
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Bacon County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Baker County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Ben Hill County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Calhoun County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Candler County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Charlton County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Chattahoochee County
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3 or fewer
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Clay County
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3 or fewer
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Clinch County
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3 or fewer
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Cook County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Dooly County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Early County
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3 or fewer
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Echols County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Evans County
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3 or fewer
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Glascock County
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3 or fewer
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Hancock County
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3 or fewer
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Heard County
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3 or fewer
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Irwin County
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3 or fewer
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Jenkins County
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3 or fewer
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Johnson County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Lanier County
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3 or fewer
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Lincoln County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Long County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Macon County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Marion County
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3 or fewer
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*
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McIntosh County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Miller County
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3 or fewer
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*
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Montgomery County
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3 or fewer
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Oglethorpe County
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3 or fewer
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Pierce County
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3 or fewer
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Pulaski County
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3 or fewer
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Quitman County
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3 or fewer
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Randolph County
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3 or fewer
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Schley County
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3 or fewer
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Seminole County
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3 or fewer
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Stewart County
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3 or fewer
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Talbot County
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3 or fewer
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Taliaferro County
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3 or fewer
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Taylor County
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3 or fewer
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Terrell County
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3 or fewer
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Towns County
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3 or fewer
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Treutlen County
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3 or fewer
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Turner County
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3 or fewer
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Twiggs County
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3 or fewer
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Warren County
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3 or fewer
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Webster County
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3 or fewer
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Wheeler County
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3 or fewer
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Wilcox County
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3 or fewer
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Wilkinson County
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3 or fewer
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Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 05/19/2024 2:46 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

* Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate and trend estimates.
** Data are too sparse to provide stable estimates of annual rates needed to calculate trend.
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.

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