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 ![]() ![]() |
Priority 2: rising ![]() ![]() |
Priority 3: rising ![]() ![]() |
Stable Trend |
Priority 4: stable ![]() ![]() Boone County Clarke County Fremont County Greene County Henry County Page County Palo Alto County Union County Van Buren County Wapello County |
Priority 6: stable ![]() ![]() Adair County Appanoose County Buchanan County Butler County Carroll County Cass County Cedar County Cherokee County Chickasaw County Clay County Clayton County Decatur County Emmet County Floyd County Grundy County Guthrie County Hancock County Hardin County Howard County Humboldt County Iowa County Keokuk County Kossuth County Louisa County Lucas County Monona County Monroe County O'Brien County Plymouth County Pocahontas County Poweshiek County Ringgold County Sac County Shelby County Tama County Washington County Wayne County Worth County |
Priority 7: stable ![]() ![]() Bremer County Buena Vista County Franklin County |
Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling ![]() ![]() Black Hawk County Clinton County Des Moines County Linn County Polk County Pottawattamie County Webster County Woodbury County |
Priority 8: falling ![]() ![]() Benton County Calhoun County Cerro Gordo County Delaware County Dubuque County Fayette County Hamilton County Harrison County Jackson County Jasper County Jones County Lee County Madison County Mahaska County Marion County Marshall County Mills County Mitchell County Montgomery County Muscatine County Scott County Warren County Winnebago County Wright County |
Priority 9: falling ![]() ![]() Crawford County Dallas County Dickinson County Jefferson County Johnson County Sioux County Story County Winneshiek County |
Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/11/2025 11:29 pm. Trend2 Rising ![]() Stable ![]() Falling ![]() Rate Comparison Above ![]() Similar ![]() Below ![]() 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 5.3.0. 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 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: Adams County Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year: Allamakee County, Audubon County, Davis County, Ida County, Lyon County, Osceola County, Taylor 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. |