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In 2019, a total of 224,733 new cases of prostate cancer were reported in the United States. The incidence rate was 112 per 100,000 males. Most cases of prostate cancer (70%) were diagnosed at the local stage.
In 2019, 142,462 cases of colon and rectum cancer were reported: 75,581 among males and 66,881 among females. The incidence rate was 36 per 100,000 standard population, and was 42 per 100,000 males and 32 per 100,000 females.
Incidence rates for cancers in adolescents and young adults increased from 1999 to 2019 in non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Female breast, thyroid, male testicular, lymphomas, colorectal, and female cervical cancer were the most common cancers.
According to data from 2015 to 2019, an estimated 47,199 new cases of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers occurred in the United States each year, including 26,177 among women and 21,022 among men.
Hematologic cancers begin in the cells of the immune system or in blood-forming tissue, such as the bone marrow. This data brief provides the rate of new hematologic cancers by age at diagnosis and cancer type, 5-year relative survival by cancer type, and estimated 5-year limited duration prevalence counts by sex and cancer type.
In 2019, a total of 1,752,735 new invasive cancer cases were reported in the United States: 863,830 among females and 888,905 among males. For all cancers combined, the incidence rate was 439 per 100,000 standard population overall. It was 415 per 100,000 among females and 474 per 100,000 among males.
Archived Data Briefs
The data in these data briefs were the most recent available at the time of publication. More recent data may be available in a newer data brief or in the U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool.
- May 2022: Incidence of Malignant Melanoma of the Skin–United States, 2009–2018
- March 2022: Incidence of Malignant Mesothelioma, 1999–2018
- December 2021: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus, United States—2014–2018
- November 2021: Incidence and Relative Survival by Stage at Diagnosis for Common Cancers
- November 2021: Incidence of Screening-Detectable Cancers Among Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, 2014–2018
- June 2021: U.S. Cancer Statistics: Highlights from 2018 Incidence
- April 2021: Cancer Incidence and 5-Year Survival Among Asian/Pacific Islander People, United States—2008–2017
- December 2020: Male Urologic Cancers
- November 2020: Cancer Incidence Among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations in Urban Indian Health Organization Service Areas, 2008–2017
- October 2020: Male Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality, United States—2013–2017
- September 2020: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus, United States—2013–2017
- June 2020: U.S. Cancer Statistics: Highlights from 2017 Incidence
- March 2020: Colorectal Cancer, United States—2007–2016
- February 2020: Cancer Incidence Among African American People, United States—2007–2016
- November 2019: Lung Cancer Incidence in the American Indian and Alaska Native Population, United States—2012–2016
- October 2019: Liver Cancer Incidence in the American Indian and Alaska Native Population, United States—2012–2016
- October 2019: Cancer Incidence Among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations, 2012–2016
- September 2019: Gynecologic Cancer Incidence, United States—2012–2016
- August 2019: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus, United States—2012–2016
- July 2019: Melanoma Incidence and Mortality, United States—2012–2016
- June 2019: U.S. Cancer Statistics: Highlights from 2016 Incidence
- May 2019: Colorectal Cancer in the American Indian and Alaska Native Population, United States—2011–2015
- December 2018: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus in the American Indian and Alaska Native Population, United States—1999–2015
- November 2018: Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer, United States—2006–2015
- August 2018: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus, United States—2011–2015
- June 2018: U.S. Cancer Statistics: Highlights from 2015 Incidence
- March 2018: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus by State—2010–2014
- December 2017: Cancers Associated with Human Papillomavirus, United States—2010–2014