RAND State Statistics recently updated its Cancer by Race database, providing cancer incidence data, crude rates, and age-adjusted rates by race for the United States and most states. It includes the leading cancers reported by the CDC. Crude rates indicate the number of cases reported each calendar year per 100,000 population. Age-adjusted rates are weighted averages of the age-specific (crude) rates, where the weights are the proportions of persons in the corresponding age groups of a standard million population. See CDC for more details.

 

From 2010 to 2018, all races in the U.S. experienced a 2.2% decrease in the rate per 100,000 persons of all invasive cancers, dropping ??from 445.5 per 100,000 in 2010 to 435.8 (see Table 1). 

 

Table 1 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, United States, 2010-2018

 

California experienced an 8.9% decrease in the rate of all invasive cancers from 2010 to 2018, dropping from 426.2 per 100,000 to 388.3 (see Table 2). American Indian or Alaska Native Californians saw the most significant decrease of cancer rates, falling 19.0% during this time period. Black or African Americans (-16.3%), Whites (-8.6%), and Asian or Pacific Islanders (-4.4%) also experienced a decrease of cancer rates over these nine years (see Figure 1).

 

Table 2 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, California, 2010-2018

 

Figure 1 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, California, 2010-2018

 

From 2010 to 2018, Texas cancer rates experienced no change, remaining at 409.5 per 100,000 over this nine-year period (see Table 3). Black or African Americans saw a decrease in cancer rates of 1.2%, Whites (0.2%), Asian or Pacific Islanders (3.6%), and American Indian or Alaska Natives (29.1%) all experienced an increase (see Figure 2).

 

Table 3 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, Texas, 2010-2018

 

Figure 2 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, Texas, 2010-2018

 

Florida had a 4.1% increase in the rate per 100,000 persons of all invasive cancers from 2010 to 2018, rising from 420.5 per 100,000 in 2010 to 437.8 (see Table 4). White Floridians experienced an increase of 3.0% in invasive cancer rates, while American Indian or Alaska Natives (-26.3%), Black or African Americans (-7.0%), and Asian or Pacific Islanders (-0.3%) experienced a decrease (see Figure 3).

 

Table 4 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, Florida, 2010-2018

 

Figure 3 - All Invasive Cancer Sites Combined, Age-adjusted Rate Per 100,000 Persons, All Races, Florida, 2010-2018

 

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