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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2016-2020

Texas Counties versus United States

Melanoma of the Skin

All Races, Both Sexes

  Above US Rate Similar to US Rate Below US Rate
Rising
Trend
Priority 1: rising and above

Priority 2: rising and similar

Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend
Priority 4: stable and above

Priority 6: stable and similar

Brazoria County
Galveston County
Jefferson County
Lubbock County
McLennan County
Potter County
Randall County
Smith County
Taylor County
Priority 7: stable and below

Hidalgo County
Falling
Trend
Priority 5: falling and above

Priority 8: falling and similar

Bell County
Collin County
Denton County
Grayson County
Nueces County
Tarrant County
Priority 9: falling and below

Bexar County
Dallas County
El Paso County
Harris County
Montgomery County
Travis County
Williamson County
Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 04/17/2024 10:52 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 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:
Anderson County, Andrews County, Angelina County, Aransas County, Archer County, Armstrong County, Atascosa County, Austin County, Bailey County, Bandera County, Bastrop County, Baylor County, Bee County, Blanco County, Borden County, Bosque County, Brazos County, Brewster County, Briscoe County, Brooks County, Brown County, Burleson County, Burnet County, Caldwell County, Calhoun County, Callahan County, Camp County, Carson County, Cass County, Castro County, Chambers County, Cherokee County, Childress County, Clay County, Cochran County, Coke County, Coleman County, Collingsworth County, Colorado County, Comanche County, Concho County, Cooke County, Coryell County, Cottle County, Crane County, Crockett County, Crosby County, Culberson County, Dallam County, Dawson County, DeWitt County, Deaf Smith County, Delta County, Dickens County, Dimmit County, Donley County, Duval County, Eastland County, Ector County, Edwards County, Ellis County, Erath County, Falls County, Fannin County, Fayette County, Fisher County, Floyd County, Foard County, Franklin County, Freestone County, Frio County, Gaines County, Garza County, Gillespie County, Glasscock County, Goliad County, Gonzales County, Gray County, Gregg County, Grimes County, Guadalupe County, Hale County, Hall County, Hamilton County, Hansford County, Hardeman County, Hardin County, Harrison County, Hartley County, Haskell County, Hays County, Hemphill County, Henderson County, Hill County, Hockley County, Hopkins County, Houston County, Howard County, Hudspeth County, Hunt County, Hutchinson County, Irion County, Jack County, Jackson County, Jasper County, Jeff Davis County, Jim Hogg County, Jim Wells County, Jones County, Karnes County, Kendall County, Kenedy County, Kent County, Kerr County, Kimble County, King County, Kinney County, Kleberg County, Knox County, La Salle County, Lamar County, Lamb County, Lampasas County, Lavaca County, Lee County, Leon County, Liberty County, Limestone County, Lipscomb County, Live Oak County, Llano County, Loving County, Lynn County, Madison County, Marion County, Martin County, Mason County, Matagorda County, Maverick County, McCulloch County, McMullen County, Medina County, Menard County, Milam County, Mills County, Mitchell County, Montague County, Moore County, Morris County, Motley County, Nacogdoches County, Navarro County, Newton County, Nolan County, Ochiltree County, Oldham County, Orange County, Palo Pinto County, Panola County, Parmer County, Pecos County, Polk County, Presidio County, Rains County, Reagan County, Real County, Red River County, Reeves County, Refugio County, Roberts County, Robertson County, Rockwall County, Runnels County, Rusk County, Sabine County, San Augustine County, San Jacinto County, San Patricio County, San Saba County, Schleicher County, Scurry County, Shackelford County, Shelby County, Sherman County, Somervell County, Starr County, Stephens County, Sterling County, Stonewall County, Sutton County, Swisher County, Terrell County, Terry County, Throckmorton County, Titus County, Tom Green County, Trinity County, Tyler County, Upshur County, Upton County, Uvalde County, Val Verde County, Van Zandt County, Walker County, Waller County, Ward County, Washington County, Webb County, Wharton County, Wheeler County, Wilbarger County, Willacy County, Wilson County, Winkler County, Wise County, Wood County, Yoakum County, Young County, Zapata County, Zavala County

Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year:
Bowie County, Cameron County, Comal County, Fort Bend County, Hood County, Johnson County, Kaufman County, Midland County, Parker County, Victoria County, Wichita 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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