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Table 27-1

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   Average Annual Age-Adjusted Incidence and Death Rates a for Selected Cancer Sites, United States, All Races by Sex, 1994-98

Incidence Rates Death Rates
Cancer SitesMalesFemalesMalesFemales
All Sites570.9476.3262.9172.5
Brain7.15.05.63.8
Breast1.3157.30.329.6
Colon and rectum68.248.926.818.8
Corpus and uterus, NOS-25.2-4.1
Esophagus7.52.17.61.8
Hodgkin disease3.02.40.60.4
Kidney and renal pelvis15.27.66.22.9
Larynx8.01.72.80.6
Leukemias15.79.310.56.0
Liver and intrahepatic bile duct8.13.16.42.9
Lung and bronchus83.149.182.940.8
Melanomas of the skin30.019.34.01.8
Multiple myeloma6.84.64.93.3
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas23.815.210.97.2
Oral cavity and pharynx17.47.04.71.8
Ovary-16.8-9.1
Pancreas12.59.812.29.3
Prostate164.9-35.3-
Stomach13.56.27.43.6
Testis5.1-0.3-
Thyroid3.39.10.40.5
Urinary bladder35.19.07.72.4
Uterine cervix-33.0-3.2
Uterine corpus-25.2-4.1
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Rates are per 100,000 and are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population.

Data Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program, 11 Registries, NCI, 2001.