FW: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report

[Guest guest]

 Based on this year's report prostate cancer is now the number 2 cancer

killer in the US. For black men it is a close second after lung cancer. I

wish we could stop arguing about screening and focus how to change these

numbers. What are we going to do about this?

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/toptencancers.aspx

Kathy

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Subject: Release of 1999-2006 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report

The 1999–2006 United States Cancer Statistics (USCS): Incidence and

Mortality Web-based Report marks the eighth time that the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI)

have jointly produced official federal cancer incidence statistics for each

state having high-quality cancer data. The report is produced in

collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer

Registries.

This year's report features information on more than one million invasive

cancer cases diagnosed during 2006 among residents of 48 states, 6

metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia—geographic areas in which

about 96% of the U.S. population reside. Incidence data are from CDC's

National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's Surveillance,

Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. Data from population-based

central cancer registries in these states and metropolitan areas meet the

selected criteria for inclusion in this report.

The report also provides cancer mortality data collected and processed by

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Mortality statistics, based on

records of deaths that occurred during 2006, are available for all 50 states

and the District of Columbia.

The 1999–2006 USCS: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report, as well as

companion materials based on the report data, are available at

http://www.cdc.gov/uscs.

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