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National Cancer Institute State Cancer Profiles Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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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

Explanation of Column Headers

Objective - The objective of 13.9 is from the Healthy People 2010 project done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Death Rate (95% Confidence Interval) - The death rate is based upon 100,000 people and is for 5 year(s). Rates are age-adjusted by 5-year age groups to the 2000 U.S. standard million population (the Healthy People 2010 goals are based on rates adjusted using different methods but the differences should be minimal).
Recent Trends - This is an interpretation of the APC.
  • 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.
    APC (95% Confidence Interval) - The Annual Percent Change is the change in rate over time. These APCs are based upon 5 years and have been calculated by SEER*Stat.

    Other Notes

  • Larger confidence intervals indicate less accuracy of the data. This is often due to low counts that are not quite low enough to be suppressed.
  • Data is currently being suppressed if there are fewer than 16 counts for the time period.

    Line by Line Interpretation of the Report

    District of Columbia
  • The healthy people objective was not met.
  • The death rate is 21.4 with a 95% confidence interval from 19.8 to 23.2 and 124 average annual deaths.
  • The rate is stable because the APC value is -8.8 with a 95% confidence interval from -17.1 to 0.5.

    United States
  • The healthy people objective was not met.
  • The death rate is 18.8 with a 95% confidence interval from 18.7 to 18.8 and 55,156 average annual deaths.
  • The rate is falling because the APC value is -4.4 with a 95% confidence interval from -5.2 to -3.6.



    Notes:
    Created by statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov on 01/30/2009 10:38 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.