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Cancer Statistics Dashboard
Revision History

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August 23, 2019

  • Delay-adjusted cancer incidence statistics have been added.

  • Unknown age or unknown/other gender are excluded from all statistics.

  • The dashboard now uses intercensal (for July 1, 2000-2009) and Vintage 2017 (for July 1, 2010-2016) population estimates. Future updates will continue using this methodology.

April 16, 2019

  • The dashboard has been updated with SEER incidence and U.S. mortality trend comparisons for 2000-2016.

April 9, 2019

  • The dashboard has been updated with cancer incidence and mortality data from the year 2016.
  • Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic ethnicity have been added to “Race” menus.
  • Cancer incidence and mortality projections have been added.
  • Median ages at diagnosis and death have been added to the Overview page.
  • All counties now have data for each race, except when suppressed to prevent patient identification.
  • County-specific net cancer survival data has been added.
  • The dashboard now uses population estimates from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program. Previously, it used estimates from the Penn State Data Center.
  • Adjusted net prostate cancer survival now uses its own standard population for adjustment.
  • Removed unnecessary columns from tables in the zip file.

September 12, 2018

  • Data on the numbers of survivors (prevalence) has been added.

July 31, 2018

  • The Cancer Statistics Dashboard goes live!