Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The National Cancer Institute. 2018. "State Cancer Profiles, Incidence Rate Report for United States by County, 2010-2014." Accessed 15 May 2018. https://www.statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/incidencerates/.

Incidence Rate Report for United States by County

All races, both sexes (except sex-specific cancers), all ages

Minnesota and Kansas data not available because of state legislation and regulations which prohibit the release of county level data to outside entities.

Data not available for Nevada.

Data has been suppressed to ensure confidentiality and stability of rate estimates. Counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 records were reported in a specific area-sex-race category. If an average count of 3 is shown, the total number of cases for the time period is 16 or more which exceeds suppression threshold (but is rounded to 3).

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County Name
County name in the original data, presumably from the US Census Bureau.

FIPS
Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 6-4 code; a five-digit code used to identify counties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_county_code

American Factfinder GEOID
ID code that can be used to unambiguously join with US Census Bureau data from American FactFinder.

Centroid Latitude
NAD 1983 latitude of the centroid calculated in R using the gCentroid function from the rgeos library based on the 2017 TIGER county cartographic boundary shapefile.

Centroid Longitude
NAD 1983 longitude of the centroid calculated in R using the gCentroid function from the rgeos library based on the 2017 TIGER county cartographic boundary shapefile.

2014 ACS Population
2010-2014 American Community Survey 5-year Estimate

Sources
References footnotes below

Incidence Per 100K
Incidence rates (cases per 100,000 population per year) are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). Rates are for invasive cancer only (except for bladder cancer which is invasive and in situ) or unless otherwise specified. Rates calculated using SEER*Stat. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The 1969-2015 US Population Data File is used for SEER and NPCR incidence rates.

Incidence MOE
Margin of error for incidence rate above

Avg Count
Average count of new diagnoses per year

5-Yr Incid Trend
Five year trend 2010 - 2014. Incidence data come from different sources. Due to different years of data availability, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each area for additional information.

======================== Types of Cancer ========================

• 2916 All Cancers
• 2933 Breast
• 2718 Lung
• 2644 Colon
• 2151 Bladder
• 2058 Melanoma
• 2052 Lymphoma
• 2045 Kidney
• 1790 Leukemia
• 1781 Uterus
• 1780 Oral
• 1767 Pancreas
• 1556 Thyroid
• 1232 Liver
• 1127 Brain
• 1080 Stomach
• 1060 Ovary
• 982 Esophagus
• 717 Cervix
• 570 Childhood

====================== Original Data Sources ======================

1 Source: CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2016 data submission and SEER November 2016 submission as published in United States Cancer Statistics.

6 Source: State Cancer Registry and the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries Cancer Surveillance System (NPCR-CSS) November 2016 data submission.

7 Source: SEER November 2016 submission.

8 Source: Incidence data provided by the SEER Program. AAPCs are calculated by the Joinpoint Regression Program and are based on APCs. Data are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84,85+). Rates are for invasive cancer only (except for bladder cancer which is invasive and in situ) or unless otherwise specified. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modifed by NCI. The 1969-2015 US Population Data File is used with SEER November 2016 data.

10 Source: Incidence data provided by the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR). EAPCs calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84,85+). Rates are for invasive cancer only (except for bladder cancer which is invasive and in situ) or unless otherwise specified. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The 1969-2015 US Population Data File is used with NPCR November 2016 data.

Please note that the data comes from different sources. Due to different years of data availablility, most of the trends are AAPCs based on APCs but some are APCs calculated in SEER*Stat. Please refer to the source for each graph for additional information.

Interpret Rankings provides insight into interpreting cancer incidence 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.