U.S. Cancer Statistics: Highlights from 2016 Incidence

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
• Description:
  U.S. Cancer Statistics: Highlights from 2016 Incidence: U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Briefs, No. 8: June 2019. Each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) produce updated U.S. Cancer Statistics data. These data are the official federal cancer statistics for the United States. The U.S. Cancer Statistics provides cancer information on the entire US population. Information about new cancer cases (incidence) comes from CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program. The latest data release includes cancers diagnosed through 2016. In 2016, a total of 1,658,716 new cancer cases were reported in the United States: 833,308 among males and 825,408 among females. The overall incidence rate was 436 per 100,000 people. The overall rate was 471 per 100,000 among males and 413 per 100,000 among females. By cancer sites, the highest incidence rates among males were prostate, lung and bronchus, and colon and rectum. Among females, the three leading sites—breast, lung and bronchus, and colon and rectum—accounted for half of cancers diagnosed among females in 2016 (Table 1).
• Subjects:
  Human Papillomavirus Viruses Incidence Neoplasms
• Source:
  United States Cancer Statistics (USCS)
• Series:
  U.S. Cancer Statistics Data brief
• Document Type:
  Newsletter
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Division:
  Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
• Topic:
  Cancer statistics
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Resources
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