CDC recently released the latest United States Cancer Statistics (USCS), with new cancers diagnosed through 2023 and cancer deaths through 2024.

As the nation’s official source for comprehensive cancer data, including more than 40 million cases and over 20 years of data, the USCS reflects CDC’s dedication to providing stakeholders with essential, high-quality information to advance public health.

For the first time, this USCS release includes complete county-level data for new cancer cases reported in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.  Complete county-level data can improve understanding of how local, geographic, and environmental factors affect cancer prevention, treatment, and survivorship care.  Data are also available now with rural-urban stratification, enabling comparisons between rural and urban communities.

The latest cancer data show:

• From 2019 to 2023, rural counties had a higher cancer incidence rate than urban counties, about 467 compared to 451 new cancer cases per 100,000 people, respectively.
• In 2023, the United States had 1,941,540 new cancer cases reported.
• In 2024, cancer continued to be the second leading cause of death in the United States with 619,871 deaths.

That USCS data release includes an updated Data Visualizations tool, that helps users easily explore data and create presentation-ready trend graphs, maps, and tables by state, county, and demographic charactieristics.

Researchers, cancer registry staff, and others use USCS data to advance scientific knowledge and reduce cancer.  The public use database can be used to take a deeper dive into cancer incidence and population data in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.  With more than 40 million cases available since 2001, this is a valuable resource for examining populations by demographic and cancer characteristics.

USCS combines cancer registry data from CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program as well as mortality data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

The latest cancer data can be used to monitor cancer trends over time, determine cancer patterns in various populations, guide planning and evaluation of cancer control programs, help set priorities for allocating health resources, and provide information for a national database of cancer incidence.  Read the USCS data brief to learn more about the 2026 data release.  For more information and questions, please contact uscsdata@cdc.gov.

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