This indicator reports the 2016-2020 five-year average rate of death due to malignant neoplasm (cancer) per 100,000 population. Figures are reported as crude rates, and as rates age-adjusted to year 2000 standard. Rates are resummarized for report areas from county level data, only where data is available. This indicator is relevant because cancer is a leading cause of death in the United States.

Within the report area, there are a total of 312 deaths due to cancer. This represents an age-adjusted death rate of 158.4 per every 100,000 total population.
Note: Data are suppressed for counties with fewer than 20 deaths in the time frame.

Note: This indicator is compared to the state average.
Data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Vital Statistics System. Accessed via CDC WONDER. 2016-2020. via SparkMap 3/5/22

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Cancer Mortality, Age-Adjusted Rate (Per 100,000 Pop.) by Gender

This table reports the age-adjusted rate of death due to cancer per 100,000 people by gender.

Cancer Mortality, Age-Adjusted Rate (Per 100,000 Pop.) by Race / Ethnicity

This table reports the age-adjusted rate death due to cancer per 100,000 people for the 5-year period 2016-2020 by race and by Hispanic origin.

“Cancer was the second leading cause of mortality among Nebraska residents in 2018, surpassed by heart disease with 65 deaths. By primary site, cancers of the lung, colon and rectum, pancreas and female breast accounted for just under half (46.7%) of Nebraska’s cancer deaths in 2018” (Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services). The cancer death rates in regions like this health district  “might reflect higher prevalence of tobacco-use and obesity in rural areas and lack of access to cancer screening services, follow-up to abnormal tests, quality care for cancer patients, and cancer survival care” (Garcia).

Cancer was cited by 7.1% of  the community health survey respondents when asked about what worried them about the health of themselves and their families, which still made it among the top three topics in this open-ended question (after COVID-19 and ability to obtain health care).  However, in the close-ended survey question when presented with a list of choices about top health concerns in the district, it was third only to mental health and COVID-19.

Patients in Cedar County are able to receive Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy in Yankton, SD.   

Cancer & Hematology Care – Providence Medical Center

Cancer Treatment — NCAN: Nebraska Cancer Network (necancernetwork.org) 

Faith Regional Carson Cancer Center, Norfolk NE 

Screenings

Skin Cancer screenings at Faith Regional