Title: How cancer will affect Americans in 2016 — in seven charts - The Washington Post
Headings: How cancer will affect Americans in 2016 — in seven charts
How cancer will affect Americans in 2016 — in seven charts
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Content: For women, breast cancer leads to the second most deaths; for men, it's prostate cancer. Advertisement
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3) Cancer by state. Some states have meaningfully higher cancer incidence rates than others. Such geographic patterns can reflect a range of factors, such as smoking rates and obesity, as well as poverty and access to health care. Easily the largest geographic variation, according to the American Cancer Society, is for lung cancer, which reflects both historical and ongoing differences in the prevalence of smoking. That's a significant reason why Kentucky, which traditionally has had a large number of smoking, has higher rates of lung cancer than Utah, which has among the nation's lowest percentage of smokers. Here are the states with highest overall incidence of cancer for both men and women, though the numbers vary based on particular types of the disease. 4) In nearly two dozen states, cancer has eclipsed heart disease as the leading cause of death. Experts say this change primarily is attributable to significant progress over the years in reducing death from heart disease.