Cancer Mortality Rates

Cancer mortality rates are usually stated as the number of people that have died from a specific type of cancer during a one-year period. These statistics are frequently broken down by age or race. You will most often find the rate stated as the number of deaths due to cancer per 100,000 people.

Mortality Rate = (Cancer Deaths / Population) × 100,000

Unless otherwise stated, mortality rates don’t take into account the stages of cancer that the people who died were diagnosed with. And just like I mentioned in the cancer survival rates section, when reading statistics, keep in mind that all of the people that make up the statistic were being treated by different doctors, at different hospitals, and using different courses of treatment.

A good source for statistics is the National Cancer Institute.

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