Rate/Trend Comparison by Cancer Table
| Above US Rate | Similar to US Rate | Below US Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising Trend |
Priority 1: rising  and above Henderson County |
Priority 2: rising and similar  Lubbock County |
Priority 3: rising and below  |
| Stable Trend |
Priority 4: stable  and above |
Priority 6: stable and similar Angelina County Bell County Brazoria County Denton County Ellis County Galveston County Grayson County Gregg County Jefferson County Johnson County McLennan County Montgomery County Nueces County Orange County Polk County Potter County Randall County Smith County Tarrant County Taylor County Tom Green County Wichita County Wood County |
Priority 7: stable and below Bexar County Cameron County Collin County El Paso County Hidalgo County Travis County Williamson County |
| Falling Trend |
Priority 5: falling and above |
Priority 8: falling and similar Dallas County |
Priority 9: falling and below Harris County |
| Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 03/16/2025 7:23 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 > 1.10Similar 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: Anderson County, Andrews County, Aransas County, Archer County, Armstrong County, Atascosa County, Austin County, Bailey County, Bandera County, Baylor County, Bee County, Blanco County, Borden County, Bosque 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, 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, Edwards 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, Grimes County, Hale County, Hall County, Hamilton County, Hansford County, Hardeman County, Hardin County, Harrison County, Hartley County, Haskell County, Hemphill County, Hockley County, Houston County, Howard County, Hudspeth 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, Kimble County, King County, Kinney County, Kleberg County, Knox County, La Salle County, Lamb County, Lampasas County, Lavaca County, Lee County, Leon 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, Panola County, Parmer County, Pecos County, Presidio County, Rains County, Reagan County, Real County, Red River County, Reeves County, Refugio County, Roberts County, Robertson County, Runnels County, Sabine County, San Augustine County, San Jacinto 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, Trinity County, Tyler County, Upshur County, Upton County, Uvalde County, Val Verde County, Waller County, Ward County, Washington County, Wharton County, Wheeler County, Wilbarger County, Willacy County, Wilson County, Winkler County, Wise 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: Bastrop County, Bowie County, Brazos County, Comal County, Coryell County, Ector County, Fort Bend County, Guadalupe County, Hays County, Hill County, Hood County, Hopkins County, Hunt County, Kaufman County, Kerr County, Lamar County, Liberty County, Midland County, Palo Pinto County, Parker County, Rockwall County, Rusk County, San Patricio County, Van Zandt County, Victoria County, Walker County, Webb 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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