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HHS RELEASE--CANCER INCIDENCE DATA
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Date: November 18, 2002
For Release: Immediately
Contacts:
CDC Press Office, Michael Greenwell (770) 488-5131
NCI Press Office, Mike Miller (301) 496-6641
Headline: HHS ISSUES CANCER INCIDENCE DATA BY STATE FOR FIRST TIME
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today released U.S. Cancer Statistics: 1999
Incidence, the most comprehensive federal data available to date on
state-specific cancer incidence rates.
"With this new data, we can better identify, understand, and address
differences in cancer rates across the country," Secretary Thompson said.
"The state and regional data will prove invaluable to public health
officials as they plan and evaluate cancer control programs and conduct
research."
Produced jointly by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention and
the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in collaboration with the North
American Association of Central Cancer Registries, this report provides
state-specific and regional data for cancer cases diagnosed in 1999, the
most recent year for which data are available.
The new data, compiled from cancer registries that have met criteria and
standards of accuracy, completeness and timeliness, are from 37 states, six
metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia and represent about 78
percent of the U.S. population. Previous reports on cancer incidence used
data from smaller samples of the U.S. population.
Information from population-based central cancer registries is critical for
directing effective cancer prevention and control programs or other
interventions. Such activities may focus on preventing behaviors that put
people at increased risk for cancer (such as tobacco use and physical
inactivity) and on reducing environmental risk factors (such as occupational
exposures to known carcinogens).
The findings include:
· The leading cancer in men, regardless of race, is prostate cancer,
followed by lung/bronchus and colon/rectal. Prostate cancer rates are 1.5
times higher in black men than white men.
· The leading cancer in women, regardless of race, is breast cancer,
followed by lung/bronchus and colon/rectal in white women, and colon/rectal
and lung/bronchus in black women. Breast cancer rates are about 20 percent
higher in white women than in black women.
· Melanomas of the skin and cancer of the testis are among the top 15
cancers for white men, but not black men.
· Melanomas of the skin and cancer of the brain/other nervous systems
are among the top 15 cancers for white women, but not black women.
· Multiple myeloma (cancer that arises in plasma cells) and cancer of
the stomach are among the top 15 cancers for black women, but not white
women.
· Multiple myeloma and cancer of the liver are among the top 15
cancers for black men, but not white men.
The report also shows geographic variations in the occurrence of cancer in
the United States. It does not include information about cancer deaths.
Researchers will continue to examine the quality of data associated with
race, ethnicity, completeness of reporting, and the effects of using census
projections from 1990. Data collection procedures for identifying specific
racial and ethnic populations vary widely from registry to registry;
therefore, only data for blacks and whites are included in this report.
Future United States Cancer Statistics reports will include data for other
racial and ethnic populations. Cancer rates usually have some uncertainty
associated with them and are updated as more information becomes available
from registries and as better estimates of state and regional populations
become available from the U.S. Census Bureau. The process of recalculating
cancer rates is standard practice.
The full report is available at www.cdc.gov/cancer/ and
www.seer.cancer.gov/statistics.
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Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and other press materials are
available at www.hhs.gov/news
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