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Colorectal Cancer Deaths per 100,000 population by Year, New Mexico and U.S., 1999 to 2017

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Why Is This Important?

Of cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of new cancer cases and cancer deaths in New Mexico. Colorectal cancer screening can significantly reduce colorectal cancer mortality through early detection, when treatment tends to be most effective. Colorectal cancer screening can also actually prevent colorectal cancer by detecting and removing polyps in the colon or rectum that could become cancers in the future.

Definition

Colorectal Cancer Deaths per 100,000 population in New Mexico Colorectal cancer mortality is defined as malignant neoplasm of the colon, rectosigmoid junction, or rectum (ICD10: C18-C20, C26).

Data Notes

Rates have been age-adjusted using the direct method and the 2000 U.S. standard population.

Data Sources

How the Measure is Calculated

Numerator:Number of colorectal cancer deaths
Denominator:New Mexico population

Data Issues

Death certificate information is submitted electronically by funeral directors, who obtain demographic information from an informant, a close family member of the decedent. The NMDOH Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics (BVRHS) does annual trainings for funeral directors and local registrars and the death certificate information goes through extensive scrutiny for completeness and consistency. The cause of death is certified by the decedent's physician or the physician that attended the death. Accidental and suspicious deaths are certified by the Office of the Medical Investigator. When death certificates are received the cause of death literals are keyed into software locally by the BVRHS, then shipped to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) where they are machine coded into ICD-10 cause-of-death codes. NCHS returns the ICD-10 codes to BVRHS where the death records are updated.

Health Topic Pages Related to: Cancer Deaths - Colorectal Cancer

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Medical literature can be queried at the PubMed website.

Indicator Data Last Updated On 12/20/2018, Published on 02/17/2020
Cancer Prevention and Control Section, Population and Community Health Bureau, Public Health Division, New Mexico Department of Health, 5301 Central Ave. NE, Suite 800, Albuquerque, NM 87108, Telephone: (505) 841-5840. For data inquiries, contact the Cancer Section Epidemiologist, Libby Bruggeman, PhD, MA (email: Libby.Bruggeman@doh.nm.gov).