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	Death Rate Report for District of Columbia by County, death years through 2005 Colon & Rectum Healthy People 2010 Objective Number: 03-05 Reduce the colorectal cancer death rate. All Races (includes Hispanic), Both Sexes, All Ages Sorted by Rate County Met Healthy People Objective of 13.9? 1 Annual Death Rate over rate period deaths per 100,000 (95% Confidence Interval) Average Deaths per Year over rate period Rate Period Recent Trend 2 Recent Annual Percent Change2 in Death Rates (95% Confidence Interval) Recent Trend Period2 District of Columbia No 21.4 (19.8, 23.2) 124 2001 - 2005 stable -8.8 (-17.1, 0.5) 2001 - 2005 United States No 18.8 (18.7, 18.8) 55,156 2001 - 2005 falling -4.4 (-5.2, -3.6) 2002 - 2005 Notes: Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 01/30/2009 5:38 pm. 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). Trend Rising when 95% confidence interval of annual percent change is above 0. Stable when 95% confidence interval of annual percent change includes 0. Falling when 95% confidence interval of annual percent change is below 0. 1 Healthy People 2010 Objectives provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 Recent trend in death rates were calculated using the Joinpoint Regression Program and are expressed as the annual percent change over the recent trend period. Recent trend period is the period since last change in trend as determined by Joinpoint. 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 2010 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.			Export Data Make Map Interpret   Printable View

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