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| Cancer Incidence in the United States
(SEER)2, 1973-91
Changing Pattern |
With the increase in prostate cancer and the leveling off of lung cancer
incidence rates, prostate cancer became the number one cancer among white
males in the mid-1980s and has increased dramatically since then. Colorectal
cancer in white males increased slightly until the mid-1980s and then decreased.
For black males, the trends in prostate and lung cancer are similar to those for white males, but the rates are higher. Colorectal cancer has not decreased as it has for white males. |
Top Five Cancer Incidence Sites: White and Black Males
Sites chosen are based on 1987-91 incidence rates
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For white females, breast cancer has the highest incidence of any primary cancer site. Lung cancer increased 125 percent between 1973 and 1991 and now has the second highest incidence for white females. Cancer of the colon/rectum has decreased since the mid-1980s. Cancer of the corpus uteri has decreased. For black females, breast cancer has the highest incidence of any primary cancer site, although the rate is less than that for white females. Lung cancer rates and trends are similar between white females and black females. Lung cancer only recently overtook colorectal cancer as the number two site for black females. Cancer of the cervix uteri has decreased and its rate is now similar to that of cancer of the corpus uteri. |
Top Five Cancer Incidence Sites: White and Black Females
Sites chosen are based on 1987-91 incidence rates