LUNG CANCER USA FACTS

Top 10 Cancers by Rates of New Cancer Cases
United States, 2019

Rate per 100,000 people

Source – U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2021 submission data (1999-2019): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz, released in June 2022.

Top 10 Cancers by Rates of Cancer Deaths
United States, 2019

Rate per 100,000 people

Source – U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2021 submission data (1999-2019): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz, released in June 2022.

SCREENING : LUNG CANCER

According to the National Cancer Institute there is a population of 4.5% or 14,400,000 persons that undergo Screening for Lung Cancer every year in the United States.

The CDC only recommended screening test for lung cancer is low-dose computed tomography (CT scan, or LDCT)

Genetic Testing and DNA Sequencing Testing is not yet done systematically by Cancer Institutes