Cancer Statistics – Males and Females
most common (by occurrence)[16] | most common (by mortality)[16] |
prostate cancer (25%) | lung cancer (31%) |
lung cancer (15%) | prostate cancer (10%) |
colorectal cancer (10%) | colorectal cancer (8%) |
bladder cancer (7%) | pancreatic cancer (6%) |
non-Hodgkin lymphoma (5%) | liver & intrahepatic bile duct (4%) |
skin melanoma (5%) | leukemia (4%) |
kidney cancer (4%) | esophageal cancer (4%) |
oral and pharyngeal cancer (3%) | bladder cancer (3%) |
leukemia (3%) | non-Hodgkin lymphoma (3%) |
pancreatic cancer (3%) | kidney cancer (3%) |
other (20%) | other (24%) |