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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 Clayton County Floyd County |
Priority 2: rising and similar Bibb County Chatham County Cobb County Gwinnett County Muscogee County Richmond County |
Priority 3: rising and below DeKalb County Fulton County |
Stable Trend |
Priority 4: stable and above |
Priority 6: stable and similar Cherokee County Dougherty County Hall County Henry County Newton County Spalding County |
Priority 7: stable and below Glynn County |
Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above |
Priority 8: falling and similar |
Priority 9: falling and below |
Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/26/2024 7:58 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: Appling County, Atkinson County, Bacon County, Baker County, Banks County, Ben Hill County, Berrien County, Bleckley County, Brantley County, Brooks County, Burke County, Butts County, Calhoun County, Candler County, Charlton County, Chattahoochee County, Clay County, Clinch County, Cook County, Crawford County, Crisp County, Dade County, Dawson County, Decatur County, Dodge County, Dooly County, Early County, Echols County, Elbert County, Emanuel County, Evans County, Fannin County, Franklin County, Glascock County, Grady County, Greene County, Habersham County, Hancock County, Hart County, Heard County, Irwin County, Jeff Davis County, Jefferson County, Jenkins County, Johnson County, Jones County, Lamar County, Lanier County, Lee County, Lincoln County, Long County, Lumpkin County, Macon County, Marion County, McDuffie County, McIntosh County, Meriwether County, Miller County, Mitchell County, Monroe County, Montgomery County, Morgan County, Oconee County, Oglethorpe County, Peach County, Pickens County, Pierce County, Pike County, Pulaski County, Putnam County, Quitman County, Rabun County, Randolph County, Schley County, Screven County, Seminole County, Stephens County, Stewart County, Talbot County, Taliaferro County, Taylor County, Telfair County, Terrell County, Toombs County, Towns County, Treutlen County, Turner County, Twiggs County, Upson County, Warren County, Washington County, Webster County, Wheeler County, Wilcox County, Wilkes County, Wilkinson County, Worth County Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year: Baldwin County, Barrow County, Bartow County, Bryan County, Bulloch County, Camden County, Carroll County, Catoosa County, Chattooga County, Clarke County, Coffee County, Colquitt County, Columbia County, Coweta County, Douglas County, Effingham County, Fayette County, Forsyth County, Gilmer County, Gordon County, Haralson County, Harris County, Houston County, Jackson County, Jasper County, Laurens County, Liberty County, Lowndes County, Madison County, Murray County, Paulding County, Polk County, Rockdale County, Sumter County, Tattnall County, Thomas County, Tift County, Troup County, Union County, Walker County, Walton County, Ware County, Wayne County, White County, Whitfield 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. |