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Cancer deaths per 100,000 persons per year for all cancers
Measure Source
Healthy People 2010, measure 3-1.
Tables
5 Cancer death rate per 100,000 population, United States, 2001, by
Data Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System.
Denominator
U.S. resident population.
Numerator
Number of deaths due to cancer (ICD-10 codes C00-C97).
Comments
Data are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population. Age-adjusted rates are weighted sums of age-specific rates. For a discussion on age adjustment, see Part A, Section 5 of Tracking Healthy People 2010.
This objective differs from Healthy People 2000 objective 16.1, which age adjusted the death rates using the 1940 standard population. See Appendix C of Tracking Healthy People 2010 for comparison data.
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