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CDC WONDER: Cancer Statistics

Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

The United States Cancer Statistics (USCS) online databases in WONDER provide cancer incidence and mortality data for the United States for the years since 1999, by year, state and metropolitan areas (MSA), age group, race, ethnicity, sex, childhood cancer classifications and cancer site. Report case counts, deaths, crude and age-adjusted incidence and death rates, and 95% confidence intervals for rates. The USCS data are the official federal statistics on cancer incidence from registries having high-quality data and cancer mortality statistics for 50 states and the District of Columbia. USCS are produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). Mortality data are provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services
Maintainer
Identifier c935e71d-c2b5-4736-876a-e0abaddc1684
Data First Published 2012-05-30
Data Last Modified 2025-02-21
Category Health
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:20
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary http://wonder.cdc.gov/cancer.html
Harvest Object Id 8736934f-a2a0-40a7-acd8-17dac7e02cdd
Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-wonder-cancer-statistics
License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Program Code 009:047
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash c1f4d8bec5a8ae876e8b70788e4873ac33707cc8b525f469c384508cb844ee16
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1999-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2006-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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