Atlas of Cancer Mortality -- Table 1b

	White males		White females
	Number	Rate	Number	Rate
All cancers	2,570,037	184.46	2,252,355	136.94
Lip	4,750	0.37	526	0.03
Salivary glands	6,450	0.47	3,946	0.24
Nasopharynx	5,763	0.39	1,988	0.12
Other oral cavity and pharynx	67,323	4.80	19,166	1.17
Esophagus	60,799	4.34	18,227	1.11
Stomach	222,311	16.34	137,207	8.37
Colon	241,859	17.79	287,643	17.55
Rectum	112,183	8.18	85,179	5.20
Liver, gallbladder, and other biliary tract	78,798	5.68	96,724	5.88
--Liver	n/a²	n/a	n/a	n/a
--Gallbladder	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
--Other biliary tract	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Pancreas	142,268	10.20	102,904	6.26
Nose, nasal cavity, and sinuses	6,302	0.46	4,056	0.25
Larynx	37,953	2.67	4,143	0.25
Lung, trachea, bronchus, and pleura	570,986	39.25	108,343	6.57
Bones and joints	20,377	1.46	14,417	0.91
Connective tissue	9,778	0.67	8,015	0.49
Melanoma of skin	23,425	1.57	18,863	1.13
Other skin	21,728	1.70	12,933	0.81
Breast	4,130	0.30	436,588	26.43
Cervix uteri	-	-	131,262	7.87
Corpus uteri and uterus NOS ³	-	-	106,439	6.46
Ovary	-	-	145,897	8.84
Vagina	-	-	n/a	n/a
Vulva	-	-	n/a	n/a
Prostate gland	252,641	20.15	-	-
Testis	12,923	0.83	-	-
Penis	n/a	n/a	-	-
Bladder	98,269	7.38	43,100	2.64
Kidney, renal pelvis, and ureter	57,779	3.99	34,212	2.07
Eye	3,452	0.24	3,288	0.20
Brain and other nervous system	67,758	4.37	47,198	2.88
Thyroid gland	6,436	0.45	12,036	0.73
Other endocrine glands	4,767	0.31	3,190	0.19
Hodgkin's disease	35,286	2.33	22,349	1.36
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	73,474	5.05	55,666	3.38
Multiple myeloma	26,278	1.84	21,477	1.30
Leukemia	130,708	9.13	95,932	5.88
Other and unspecified cancers	163,083	11.74	169,441	10.33

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