Title: The 20 States with the Highest Cancer Rates | The Healthy
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The 20 States with the Highest Cancer Rates
The U.S. cancer risk isn't spread evenly across the states: Here are the 20 states with the highest cancer rates.
The cancer report
Kentucky
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Louisiana
Rhode Island
West Virginia
Maine
Iowa
Connecticut
Mississippi
Arkansas
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Lauren Cahn

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The 20 States with the Highest Cancer Rates
Lauren Cahn Updated: Mar. 29, 2021
Medically reviewed by Tia Jackson-Bey, MD
The U.S. cancer risk isn't spread evenly across the states: Here are the 20 states with the highest cancer rates. Sorry, the video player failed to load. ( Error Code: 100013)
The cancer report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute published a comprehensive report on national cancer statistics titled, Leading Cancer Cases and Deaths, Male and Female, 2012-2016. The report reveals, among other things, each state’s cancer rate per 100,000 people from 2012-2016. For comparison, the overall U.S. rate is 448 new cases per 100,000 people. An important thing to know about cancer rates: The better a state is at screening for cancer, the more disease it will find;