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Table III-4
Comparison of 1996 Indiana State and County Incidence Rates
CANCER: COLON, INVASIVE
All Races, Both Sexes

County # Cases Rate St. Error Significance
INDIANA 2,249 31.3 0.68
1. Adams 21 51.7 11.86 NS
2. Allen 114 31.8 3.06 NS
3. Bartholomew 32 40.3 7.26 NS
4. Benton * ** # ##
5. Blackford * ** # ##
6. Boone 11 ** # ##
7. Brown * ** # ##
8. Carroll 7 ** # ##
9. Cass 19 ** # ##
10. Clark 42 36.0 5.68 NS
11. Clay 9 ** # ##
12. Clinton 12 ** # ##
13. Crawford * ** # ##
14. Daviess 16 ** # ##
15. Dearborn 26 46.6 9.31 NS
16. Decatur 5 ** # ##
17. DeKalb 9 ** # ##
18. Delaware 47 30.1 4.53 NS
19. Dubois 18 ** # ##
20. Elkhart 39 20.0 3.29 NS
21. Fayette 12 ** # ##
22. Floyd 22 24.4 5.33 NS
23. Fountain 12 ** # ##
24. Franklin 11 ** # ##
25. Fulton 5 ** # ##
26. Gibson 12 ** # ##
27. Grant 44 40.6 6.29 NS
28. Greene 19 ** # ##
29. Hamilton 36 28.1 4.76 NS
30. Hancock 18 ** # ##
31. Harrison 17 ** # ##
32. Hendricks 25 27.7 5.61 NS
33. Henry 24 32.8 6.89 NS
34. Howard 26 24.8 4.94 NS
35. Huntington 16 ** # ##
36. Jackson 11 ** # ##
37. Jasper 15 ** # ##
38. Jay 104 ** # ##
39. Jefferson 13 ** # ##
40. Jennings 10 ** # ##
41. Johnson 18 ** # ##
42. Knox 29 50.7 9.81 NS
43. Kosciusko 25 30.7 6.28 NS
44. LaGrange 5 ** # ##
45. Lake 195 33.0 2.39 NS
46. LaPorte 47 33.0 4.91 NS
47. Lawrence 34 55.7 9.85 NS
48. Madison 61 33.8 4.42 NS
49. Marion 298 32.3 1.91 NS
50. Marshall 17 ** # ##
51. Martin 7 ** # ##
52. Miami 10 ** # ##
53. Monroe 40 39.9 6.40 NS
54. Montgomery 16 ** # ##
55. Morgan 24 33.4 6.95 NS
56. Newton 5 ** # ##
57. Noble 14 ** # ##
58. Ohio * ** # ##
59. Orange 11 ** # ##
60. Owen * ** # ##
61. Parke 8 ** # ##
62. Perry 12 ** # ##
63. Pike * ** # ##
64. Porter 52 34.5 4.82 NS
65. Posey 6 ** # ##
66. Pulaski 7 ** # ##
67. Putnam 14 ** # ##
68. Randolph 12 ** # ##
69. Ripley 6 ** # ##
70. Rush * ** # ##
71. St. Joseph 114 33.1 3.20 NS
72. Scott 8 ** # ##
73. Shelby 22 43.7 9.51 NS
74. Spencer 8 ** # ##
75. Starke 6 ** # ##
76. Steuben 11 ** # ##
77. Sullivan 8 ** # ##
78. Switzerland * ** # ##
79. Tippecanoe 37 30.7 5.14 NS
80. Tipton 5 ** # ##
81. Union * ** # ##
82. Vanderburgh 88 36.1 4.02 NS
83. Vermillion 10 ** # ##
84. Vigo 48 32.7 4.91 NS
85. Wabash 10 ** # ##
86. Warren * ** # ##
87. Warrick 16 ** # ##
88. Washington 8 ** # ##
89. Wayne 29 27.3 5.30 NS
90. Wells 5 ** # ##
91. White 12 ** # ##
92. Whitley 10 ** # ##

  * Fewer than 5 cases, number suppressed to protect confidentiality.
** Rates based on fewer than twenty cases are unstable and are suppressed.
# Standard error cannot be calculated.
NS = Not significantly different from the state rate.
Lower = Significantly lower than the state rate.
Higher = Significantly higher than the state rate.
## Significance cannot be calculated.
N.B.: State total contains 4 cases that could not be assigned to a county.
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Source:  Indiana State Department of Health - Indiana State Cancer Registry and the Epidemiology Resource Center, Data Analysis Team, January 2001


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