QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Cancer, by Urban-Rural Status and Sex — National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), United States, 1999–2019

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• Alternative Title:
  Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Cancer, by Urban-Rural Status and Sex — National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), United States, 1999–2019
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Curtin, Sally C. ; Branum, PAmy M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Cancer death rates declined among males and females during 1999–2019 in urban areas from 249.6 per 100,000 to 168.4 for males and from 168.2 to 123.9 for females. Rates also declined in rural areas from 262.4 to 195.6 for males and from 165.4 to 139.2 for females. Throughout the period, cancer death rates were higher for males than females and in rural compared with urban areas, and the urban-rural differences widened over the period for both males and females.
  
  Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System (U.S.), Mortality Data. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm
  
  Reported by: Sally C. Curtin, MA; Amy M. Branum, PhD.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Epidemiology Public Health Public Health Surveillance
• Source:
  MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 70(37):1312
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Charts, Diagrams, Etc.
• Genre:
  QuickStats ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  37
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3e8b45f30f106c4340f1d317de057db3efa47fb0f318d924779b330d99d6570ce6650bd06057fce0da1004517e0c7dce9c16f548756ad6fdb54fd8c697b77e23
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/110252/cdc_110252_DS1.pdf
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