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Vaginal and Vulvar Cancer Statistics

What to know

Vaginal and vulvar cancers are very rare. While all women are at risk for these cancers, very few will get them.

U.S. map from the U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool

Vaginal cancer

In the United States in 2020 (the latest year for which numbers are available):1

  • 1,272 women (0.6 per 100,000 women) were diagnosed with vaginal cancer.
  • 423 women (0.2 per 100,000 women) died from vaginal cancer.
  • Non-Hispanic Black women had the highest rate of getting vaginal cancer (0.8 per 100,000 women), followed by non-Hispanic White women (0.6), Hispanic women (0.5), and non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander women (0.3). The rate for non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native women is suppressed because there were too few people to calculate.
  • The rate of dying from vaginal cancer was similar for non-Hispanic Black women, non-Hispanic White women, and Hispanic women (0.2 per 100,000 women). The rates for non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander women and non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native women are suppressed because there were too few people to calculate.

Vulvar cancer

In the United States in 2020 (the latest year for which numbers are available):2

  • 5,276 women (2.5 per 100,000 women) were diagnosed with vulvar cancer.
  • 1,466 women (0.6 per 100,000 women) died from vulvar cancer.
  • Non-Hispanic White women had the highest rate of getting vulvar cancer (2.9 per 100,000 women), followed by non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native women (2.4), non-Hispanic Black women and Hispanic women (1.7), and non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander women (0.8).
  • Non-Hispanic White women had the highest rate of dying from vulvar cancer (0.7 per 100,000 women), followed by non-Hispanic Black women and Hispanic women (0.4), and non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander women (0.2). The rate for non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native women is suppressed because there were too few people to calculate.
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Content Source:
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
  1. US Cancer Statistics Working Group. US Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2022 submission data (1999–2020): US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; November 2023. Accessed January 31, 2024. www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz
  2. US Cancer Statistics Working Group. US Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2022 submission data (1999–2020): US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; November 2023. Accessed January 31, 2024. www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz