Title: 10 States Where Cancer Incidence Is the Highest | The Motley Fool
Headings: 10 States Where Cancer Incidence Is the Highest
10 States Where Cancer Incidence Is the Highest
According to the CDC, these 10 states have the highest age-adjusted cancer incidence rates. Find out what some of the biggest risk factors are in these states as well as what therapies are being introduced to curb the rising tide of cancer diagnoses.

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I would attest that there is perhaps no word or diagnosis scarier to me in the English language than cancer. A survey conducted in 2010 by Cancer Research UK in Britain would appear to agree with me, as more respondents chose cancer as their biggest fear over a number of other ailments including Alzheimer's disease, a heart attack, or being in a plane crash. The reasons cancer is often viewed so negatively is twofold. Image source: Getty Images. First, we still have very little understanding as to how cancer cells form, activate, and replicate in the first place. This isn't to say that there isn't novel research going on at this very moment into specific proteins and characteristics within cancer cells that can help us fight their replication process, but generally speaking, if we understood how cancer worked we'd probably have considerably higher overall response rates for a number of cancer treatments, wouldn't we? Second, there are also a number of common misconceptions built into a cancer diagnosis -- the worst of all being that getting cancer is a roll of the dice, and that there's nothing you can do to reduce your chance of developing cancer. Although certain cancer risks are based on hereditary (i.e., genetic) factors, about one-third of cancer incidence can be reduced or eliminated by simple lifestyle habit corrections according to the latest report from the World Health Organization.