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Figure 1.17

CSR Figure 1.17: SEER Incidence, Burden vs Risk by Cancer Site


Figure 1.17

Incidence Percent Change between 1999 and 2008
Numbers (burden) vs Rates (risk)
All Races, All Ages, Both Sexes
Cancer Site Burden Percent ChangeRisk Percent Change
Thyroid 88.4 69.8
Kidney & Renal Pelvis 55.7 32.0
Liver & IBD 47.4 22.2
Melanoma of the Skin 35.2 18.1
Testis 15.7 10.6
Pancreas 29.5 9.3
Corpus & Uterus, NOS 21.2 2.4
Leukemia 15.5 0.9
Oral Cavity & Pharynx 19.7 0.2
Myeloma 18.5 0.2
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 15.7 -0.2
Hodgkin Lymphoma 5.7 -2.5
Urinary Bladder 10.4 -5.2
All Cancer Sites 10.0 -6.4
Brain & ONS 4.6 -7.3
Breast (Female) 4.8 -9.3
Esophagus 6.4 -10.2
Ovarya 2.2 -11.6
Lung & Bronchus 0.9 -13.2
Stomach -3.0 -17.4
Prostate 3.2 -17.5
Colon & Rectum -3.7 -18.6
Cervix Uteri -13.2 -20.0
Larynx -13.5 -27.8

Footnotes:

US Incidence estimates based on SEER age-specific rates applied to US population.

Burden is the change in the number of incidence cases between 1999 and 2008

Risk is the change in the cancer incidence rates between 1999 and 2008

aOvary excludes borderline cases or histologies 8442, 8451, 8462, 8472, and 8473.

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