May 9, 2024 · Statistics at a Glance: The Burden of Cancer in the United States. In 2024, an estimated 2,001,140 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 611,720 people will die from the disease.

Accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive cancer information from the U.S. government's principal agency for cancer research.

In 2024, roughly 2.0 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States. An estimated 310,720 women and 2,790 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer, which makes it the most common cancer diagnosis.

Annual reports of U.S. cancer statistics including new cases, deaths, trends, survival, prevalence, lifetime risk, and progress toward Healthy People targets, plus statistical summaries for a number of common cancer types.

State Cancer Profiles. Dynamic views of cancer statistics for prioritizing cancer control efforts across the nation

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.

List of common cancer types, or cancers that are diagnosed with the greatest frequency in the United States; provides most recent incidence and mortality statistics for these cancers.

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 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).

The national cancer-attributed medical care costs in the United States are substantial and projected to increase due to population changes alone, according to the Medical Care Costs Associated with Cancer Survivorship in the United States article, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (1). National costs for ...