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.

Content: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, rates per 100,000 people according to 2000 U.S. Census. My intent is certainly not to alarm anyone, but there is a significant bias east of the Mississippi River when it comes to cancer rate incidence in the U.S. To add some context to the above figures, the average age-adjusted cancer incidence in this country is roughly 445 people per 100,000. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Breaking down these figures
There are four particular cancer types that are diagnosed more in this country than any other form of cancer: prostate cancer in men, breast cancer in women, lung and bronchus cancer, and colorectal cancer. As these states relate to prostate cancer incidence, five of the eight highest incidence states are listed above in Louisiana, Michigan, Delaware, New York, and New Hampshire. In female breast cancer, four of the aforementioned states are in the top nine -- Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire, and Iowa. The story is similar in colorectal cancer, with only Louisiana, Kentucky, and Iowa showing up within the top six incident rate states. Finally, three of the states above -- Kentucky, Maine, and Louisiana -- crack the top nine in terms of highest incidence for lung and bronchus cancer.