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Basic information about cancer statistics in the United States and how they are used to understand the impact of cancer on society and to develop strategies that address the challenges that cancer poses.
According to American Cancer Society projections, about 2,001,140 new cases of cancer are expected to be diagnosed in 2024, including 299,010 cases of prostate cancer, 313,510 cases of breast cancer, 234,580 cases of lung and bronchus cancer, and 152,810 cases of colorectal cancer.
State Cancer Profiles is a comprehensive system enabling the investigation of cancer trends at the national, state, and county level. CI*Rank presents ranked, age-adjusted cancer incidence and mortality rates by state, county, and special region in the US. The site also presents confidence intervals for those ranks.
A cancer incidence rate is the number of new cancers of a specific site/type occurring in a specified population during a year, usually expressed as the number of cancers per 100,000 population at risk. That is, Incidence rate = (New cancers / Population) × 100,000.
The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer has statistics on cancer deaths and new cases (incidence). The report includes long-term trends (since 2001) and short-term trends with the most recent five years of data (2014-2018 for incidence and 2015-2019 for mortality).
SEER is an authoritative source for cancer statistics in the United States. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program provides information on cancer statistics in an effort to reduce the cancer burden among the U.S. population.
Cancer Stat Facts are a collection of statistical summaries for a number of common cancer types. They were developed to provide a quick overview of frequently-requested cancer statistics. Available statistics may include incidence, mortality, survival, stage, prevalence, and lifetime risk.
The Annual Report to the Nation provides recent trends in rates of new cancer cases (incidence) and death rates (mortality) in the United States. Overall, cancer death rates decreased 2.3% per year (on average) among males and 1.9% per year (on average) among females.
The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer is an update of rates for new cases, deaths, and trends for the most common cancers in the United States.
It was developed with the idea to provide a geographic profile of cancer burden in the United States and reveal geographic disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, risk factors for cancer, and cancer screening, across different population subgroups.