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Assume you have been asked by your nurse supervisor to review cancer statistics for your state and summarize for your department how they could be applied to your local community.

The CDC Wonder program can help public health workers manage trends by organizing data to make it consumable for program planning. 

Review the “Top 10 Cancer Rates of New Cancer Cases” and “Top 10 Cancers by Rates of Cancer Deaths.”

Write a 500-word summary about how you might be able to use this data in your community. Include the following in your summary: 

• Top 3 types of cancer by rate 
• Age-adjusted rate  
• Case count 
• How you might use this data in your community or public health setting for each of the top 3 types of cancer

Top 10 Cancers by Rates of New Cancer Cases

All Types of Cancer, Illinois, 2018

Rate per 100,000 people
Source – U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2020 submission data (1999-2018): 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 2021.

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Top 10 Cancers by Rates of Cancer Deaths
All Types of Cancer, Illinois, 2018
Rate per 100,000 people
Source – U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2020 submission data (1999-2018): 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 2021.

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Footnotes
Incidence data are compiled from selected cancer registries meeting U.S. Cancer Statistics data quality criteria covering 99% of the U.S. population.
Invasive cancer excludes basal and squamous cell carcinomas of the skin except when these occur on the skin of the genital organs, benign and borderline brain and central nervous system tumors, and in situ cancers except urinary bladder. Urinary bladder cancer includes invasive and in situ.
Ovary excludes cancers classified as borderline according to ICD-O-3, beginning with 2001 diagnoses.
Death data are from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics National Vital Statistics System and cover 100% of U.S. population.
Rates are the number of cases (or deaths) per 100,000 people and are age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population (19 age groups – Census P25–1130).

Race categories are not mutually exclusive from Hispanic origin.
Rates are not presented for people whose race was not specified or who are members of other racial groups.
Data for specified racial or ethnic populations other than white and black should be interpreted with caution.
Rates and counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 cases (or deaths) were reported in a specific category, such as cancer type, race, ethnicity, age, and state.
For more information, see U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool Technical Notes.
Suggested Citation
U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2020 submission data (1999-2018): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz, released in June 2021.

Race categories are not mutually exclusive from Hispanic origin.
Rates are not presented for people whose race was not specified or who are members of other racial groups.
Data for specified racial or ethnic populations other than white and black should be interpreted with caution.
Rates and counts are suppressed if fewer than 16 cases (or deaths) were reported in a specific category, such as cancer type, race, ethnicity, age, and state.
For more information, see U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool Technical Notes.
Suggested Citation
U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations Tool, based on 2020 submission data (1999-2018): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute; www.cdc.gov/cancer/dataviz, released in June 2021.