Men had a 24% higher incidence of invasive cancer than women in 2010, and black men had the highest rate among men of all races/ethnicities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported March 27.
Among women, however, the incidence of invasive cancers was highest among whites – 410 cases per 100,000 population – in 2010, the last year for which data are available. Black women had the second-highest rate: 389 per 100,000. In comparison, black men had an incidence of 553 per 100,000 and white men had a rate of 495 per 100,000, the CDC said (MMWR 2014:63;253-9).
The overall incidence rates were 503 per 100,000 for all men and 405 for all women. The total U.S. rate was 446 per 100,000 in 2010, compared with 459 in 2009, according to the CDC, which defined invasive cancers as "all cancers except in situ cancers (other than in the urinary bladder) and basal and squamous cell skin cancers."
