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	Compare by Region: The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.
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	Compare by Time Period: This gauge shows whether the Marin County value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement.
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	Target: This gauge shows whether or not a specific target is met. A green check means the target is met and a red "X" means the target is not met.

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Red > 69.3
Green <= 60.3
In-between = Yellow
Unit: cases/100,000 population
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Lung and Bronchus Cancer Incidence Rate

Value:	45.8 cases/100,000 population
Measurement Period:	2003-2007
Location:	County : Marin
Categories:	Health / Cancer Health / Respiratory Diseases

What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the age-adjusted incidence rate for lung and bronchus cancers. Rates are for invasive cancer only.

Why this is important: More people die from lung cancer than any other type of cancer. In fact, in 2002, lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined. Lung cancer is the second most common cancer for all males in the U.S. as well as white and American Indian/Alaska Native females, and the third most common cancer among black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic females. In the United States in 2009, it is estimated that there will be 219,440 new cases and 159,390 deaths from lung cancer.

Technical note: The distribution for this indicator is based on data from 55 California counties. Rates were not calculated for counties with 3 or fewer reported cases.

Source: National Cancer Institute

URL of Source: http://www.cancer.gov

URL of Data: http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/incidencerates/

Time Series Data

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Lung and Bronchus Cancer Incidence Rate by Gender

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Lung and Bronchus Cancer Incidence Rate by Race/Ethnicity

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