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Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to share updates to our U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool that will make it easier for you to explore the cancer burden among different populations in the United States.

In addition to updated data on cancers diagnosed through 2019, which we announced in June this year, the Data Visualizations tool now includes:

• Mutually exclusive race categories: White, Non-Hispanic; Black, Non-Hispanic; American Indian and Alaska Native, Non-Hispanic; Asian and Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic; and Hispanic.
• Cancer survival and prevalence estimates by the race and ethnicity categories listed above.
• Updated risk factor (obesity, nutrition, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and alcohol consumption) estimates at national and state levels from CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
• Updated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage estimates for teens aged 13 to 17 years from CDC's National Immunization Survey-Teen.

Accurate determination of disease burden is critical to identify health disparities. The new race and ethnicity categories represent US populations more accurately and help reduce racial misclassification in cancer data.

U.S. Cancer Statistics are the official federal cancer statistics on the U.S. population. These statistics combine cancer registry data from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.

Many people use these data to understand how cancer affects the nation and people in their state and county, create and evaluate prevention programs, conduct research, reduce health disparities, and improve cancer outcomes for all.

Questions? Please contact us at uscsdata@cdc.gov

Regards,

Simple Singh, MD, MPH

Epidemiologist

National Program of Cancer Registries

Division of Cancer Prevention and Control

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

sdsingh@cdc.gov