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Deaths due to Cancer by County, New Jersey, 2020
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Deaths due to Cancer by County, New Jersey, 2020
Why Is This Important?
For decades, cancer was the second leading cause of death in the U.S. and New Jersey. In 2020, it was New Jersey's third leading cause of death after heart disease and COVID-19.
Definition
Deaths with malignant neoplasm (cancer) as the underlying cause of death. ICD-10 codes: C00-C97
Data Notes
Data have been age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population.Data Sources
- Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development
(https://www.nj.gov/labor/labormarketinformation/demographics/population-household-estimates/) - Underlying Cause of Death, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of deaths due to all types of cancerDenominator:
Estimated number of persons in the population
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective C-01
U.S. Target: Reduce the overall cancer death rate to 122.7 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/cancer/reduce-overall-cancer-death-rate-c-01
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective C-1
U.S. Target: Reduce the overall cancer death rate to 161.4 deaths per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/cancer
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective CA-1
NJ Target: Reduce cancer deaths to 135.5 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted) for the total population, 65.3 for Asians, 161.8 for Blacks, 91.9 for Hispanics, and 143.4 for Whites by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/cancer.shtml
Health Initiative: CDI
Chronic Disease Indicator CAN08
Description: Invasive cancer (all sites combined) mortality among all people, underlying cause
https://www.cdc.gov/cdi/indicator-definitions/cancer.html