{"id":2578,"date":"2015-01-14T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2015-01-14T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:25:34","slug":"cancer-deaths-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/01\/14\/2578\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Deaths in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott has\u00a0generated interest in cancer\u00a0deaths in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer is the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db178.pdf\"> second leading cause of death <\/a>in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The number of\u00a0cancer deaths are available from the multiple cause of death option on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/\">CDC WONDER database<\/a> using the C00-C97 ICD\u00a0 Code, <em>\u201cMalignant Neoplasms.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are our latest national numbers on\u00a0cancer deaths in the U.S. from 1999-2012:<\/p>\n<p>Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Deaths<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 549,838<\/p>\n<p><strong>2000\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 553,091<\/p>\n<p><strong>2001<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 553,768<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 557,271<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 556,902<\/p>\n<p><strong>2004\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 553,888<\/p>\n<p><strong>2005<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 559,312<\/p>\n<p><strong>2006<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 559,888<\/p>\n<p><strong>2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 562,875<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 565,469<\/p>\n<p><strong>2009\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 567,628<\/p>\n<p><strong>2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 574,743<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 576,691<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 582,623<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7,873,987<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/dcpc\/prevention\/\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cancer\/dcpc\/prevention\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/cancer.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/cancer.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott has\u00a0generated interest in cancer\u00a0deaths in the U.S. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. The number of\u00a0cancer deaths are available from the multiple cause of death option on the CDC WONDER database using the C00-C97 ICD\u00a0 Code, \u201cMalignant Neoplasms.\u201d Here are our latest national<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10559],"tags":[63900,53714,63913,64161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}