Resources: Cancer Incidence Statistics

Reports and Monographs

Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2005 provides an update on the trends in cancer incidence (new cases reported) and death rates in the United States. The current report, published in November 2008, contains a special feature on trends in lung cancer, tobacco use and tobacco control.

SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2005 includes tables showing Delay Adjusted Incidence (PDF) and Incidence by Race/Ethnicity (PDF) as well as rates by sex, age, and year of diagnosis for major cancers.

US Cancer Statistics, 2004 Incidence & Mortality provides the most comprehensive federal data available to date on state-specific cancer incidence rates.

Cancer Incidence in Four Middle Eastern Countries (Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, and Jordan) presents information about cancer incidence for populations of the four countries for the period 1996-2001, and compares the findings with those from the US SEER Program.

New Malignancies Among Cancer Survivors: SEER Cancer Registries, 1973-2000 reports on the risk of new malignancies that have arisen among more than 2 million SEER cancer survivors for the period 1973 to 2000. Risks of subsequent cancers are evaluated for more than 50 adult and 18 childhood tumors, by gender, age at diagnosis of the initial cancer, and time since diagnosis, as well as the initial treatment and histologic type of certain cancers.

Cancer Epidemiology in Older Adolescents and Young Adults 15 to 29 Years of Age presents detailed information about cancer incidence and outcomes in adolescents and young adults. It was developed to gather population-based incidence, mortality, and survival data specific to cancers that occur in this population, along with epidemiological data and risk factors for the development of age-specific cancers

US Predicted Cancer Incidence, 1999: Complete Maps by County and State from Spatial Projection Models uses a spatial projection model that predicts the number of cases in each county based on the sociodemographic and lifestyle profile for that county.

SEER Statistical Publications provide cancer incidence, mortality, and survival data on relevant topics such as socioeconomic variations prostate cancer, racial/ethnic patterns of cancer, and childhood cancers.

Research Tools for Incidence Statistics

What Tool Should I Use? will help you determine which of these tools is most appropriate for you.

Cancer Stat Fact Sheets are a collection of statistical summaries for a number of common cancer types. They were developed to provide a quick overview of frequently-requested cancer statistics.

FastStats is an interactive tool to access key SEER and US cancer statistics by age, sex, and race.

State Cancer Profiles is a comprehensive system enabling the investigation of cancer trends at the national, state, and county level.

Cancer Query Systems: SEER Incidence Statistics is a Web-based program that allows you to select statistics by defining various parameters.

SEER*Stat software allows cancer researchers to calculate incidence rates based on SEER or other cancer databases.

Joinpoint can be used to calculate cancer trends by analyzing incidence rates. This is often used to analyze trends in rates calculated by SEER*Stat.