Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
| 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 St. Joseph County |
Priority 6: stable and similar Cass County Clark County Clay County Dearborn County Decatur County Dubois County Elkhart County Fayette County Greene County Henry County Jefferson County Knox County Lawrence County Morgan County Owen County Putnam County Wabash County Wells County Whitley County |
Priority 7: stable and below |
| Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above Lake County Marion County Vigo County |
Priority 8: falling and similar Allen County Bartholomew County Boone County Clinton County Daviess County DeKalb County Delaware County Floyd County Gibson County Grant County Hamilton County Hancock County Harrison County Hendricks County Howard County Huntington County Jasper County Johnson County Kosciusko County LaPorte County Madison County Marshall County Miami County Monroe County Montgomery County Noble County Porter County Ripley County Shelby County Tippecanoe County Vanderburgh County Warrick County Wayne County |
Priority 9: falling and below |
| Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 07/06/2025 12:58 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 > 1.10Similar when unable to conclude above or below with confidence.Below when 95% confident the rate is below and Rate Ratio3 < 0.901 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: Benton County, Blackford County, Brown County, Carroll County, Crawford County, Martin County, Newton County, Ohio County, Pike County, Pulaski County, Randolph County, Rush County, Spencer County, Sullivan County, Switzerland County, Union County, Vermillion County, Warren County, Washington County, White County Trend for the following could not be reliably determined due to small number of deaths per year: Adams County, Fountain County, Franklin County, Fulton County, Jackson County, Jay County, Jennings County, LaGrange County, Orange County, Parke County, Perry County, Posey County, Scott County, Starke County, Steuben County, Tipton 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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