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Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table

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Death Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer, 2019-2023

Georgia Counties versus United States

Breast

All Races, Female
  Above US Rate Similar to US Rate Below US Rate
Rising
Trend		 Priority 1: rising and above

Priority 2: rising and similar

Pickens County		 Priority 3: rising and below

Stable
Trend		 Priority 4: stable and above

Bartow County
Clayton County
DeKalb County
Douglas County
Hart County
Henry County
Muscogee County
Richmond County		 Priority 6: stable and similar

Baldwin County
Barrow County
Bibb County
Bryan County
Bulloch County
Camden County
Carroll County
Catoosa County
Chatham County
Chattooga County
Cherokee County
Clarke County
Columbia County
Coweta County
Decatur County
Dodge County
Dougherty County
Effingham County
Fayette County
Floyd County
Gilmer County
Gordon County
Gwinnett County
Hall County
Harris County
Laurens County
Liberty County
Lowndes County
Lumpkin County
Madison County
Newton County
Oconee County
Paulding County
Peach County
Polk County
Rabun County
Rockdale County
Spalding County
Sumter County
Thomas County
Tift County
Troup County
Upson County
Walton County
Ware County
Whitfield County		 Priority 7: stable and below

Forsyth County
Falling
Trend		 Priority 5: falling and above

Fulton County		 Priority 8: falling and similar

Cobb County
Glynn County
Habersham County
Houston County
Jackson County
Walker County		 Priority 9: falling and below

Notes:
Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/13/2026 9:58 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. 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 (20 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85-89, 90+). The Healthy People 2030 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, Ben Hill County, Berrien County, Bleckley County, Brantley County, Brooks County, Burke County, Calhoun County, Candler County, Charlton County, Chattahoochee County, Clay County, Clinch County, Crawford County, Crisp County, Dade County, Dooly County, Early County, Echols County, Elbert County, Evans County, Franklin County, Glascock County, Grady County, Greene County, Hancock County, Haralson County, Heard County, Irwin County, Jasper County, Jeff Davis County, Jefferson County, Jenkins County, Johnson County, Jones County, Lamar County, Lanier County, Lincoln County, Long County, Macon County, Marion County, McDuffie County, McIntosh County, Miller County, Mitchell County, Montgomery County, Morgan County, Oglethorpe County, Pike County, Pulaski County, Putnam County, Quitman County, Randolph County, Schley County, Screven County, Seminole County, Stewart County, Talbot County, Taliaferro County, Taylor County, Telfair County, Terrell County, Towns County, Treutlen County, Turner County, Twiggs 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:
Banks County, Butts County, Coffee County, Colquitt County, Cook County, Dawson County, Emanuel County, Fannin County, Lee County, Meriwether County, Monroe County, Murray County, Pierce County, Stephens County, Tattnall County, Toombs County, Union County, Wayne County, White 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 do not include Puerto Rico.

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