Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The National Cancer Institute. 2018. "State Cancer Profiles, Incidence Rate Report by State, 2011-2015." Accessed 29 September 2018. https://www.statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/incidencerates/.

Incidence Rate Report for United States by State

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

Data not available for Nevada.

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State 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.

Incidence Per 100K
Incidence rates as new diagnoses per 100,000 population per year. Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population.

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 2011 - 2015. 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.

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