Cancer Statistics
National Cancer Institute
- Understanding Cancer Statistics: Learn definitions of statistical terms, how cancer statistics are used, and how population-based cancer statistics are calculated... More Information
- Find Cancer Statistics: Find the latest topical reports, interactive graphs, and statistics for many common cancer types, geographic area, and demographic subgroups... More Information
- Statistical Tools and Data for Researchers: Access NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program cancer databases, statistical methods, and software tools... More Information
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society projects the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths expected each year in order to estimate the contemporary cancer burden, because cancer incidence and mortality data lag three to four years behind the current year. In addition, the regularly updated Facts & Figures publications present the most current trends in cancer occurrence and survival, as well as information on symptoms, prevention, early detection, and treatment... More Information
Macmillan Cancer Support
Cancer statistics are often used to:
- say what a person’s risk of getting cancer is
- help guide decisions about treatments
- give information about prognosis and survival rates.
Statistics are based on trends in large numbers of people. They are often used to help explain what the chances (probability) are of something happening. But they can’t tell you for certain what will happen to a particular person... More Information
Cancer Research UK
Summary key statistics and information on cancer incidence, mortality, survival and risk factors (causes) are presented here. For some cancers there are also data on diagnosis and treatment and for cancer screening. There are also in-depth stats and downloadable publications... More Information
Worldwide cancer statistics: 14.1 million adults in the world were diagnosed with cancer in 2012. There were 8.2 million deaths from cancer in the world in 2012. More Information