Resources: Cancer Prevalence Statistics

Reports and Tools

The SEER Cancer Statistic Review, 1975-2005 includes tables and figures showing Complete and Limited Duration Cancer Prevalence Estimates (PDF) which include US cancer prevalence estimates as of January 1, 2005, estimated from SEER data. Prevalence estimates are presented by cancer site, race, sex, and years since diagnosis.

Estimated US Prevalence Counts from the NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship provides additional interpretation and a graphical presentation of estimated US prevalence counts.

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

Cancer Query Systems: Cancer Prevalence Database is a Web-based program that allows you to select statistics by defining a variety of parameters.

Software for Calculating Prevalence Statistics  

SEER*Stat software calculates limited-duration prevalence.

ComPrev software calculates complete prevalence estimates, based on limited-duration prevalence statistics calculated on SEER cancer data.

ProjPrev software combines populations and prevalence proportions to obtain/project new prevalence proportions.