The most frequent request NCI receives from reporters is to provide the latest cancer statistics: incidence, mortality, and survival, often broken down by age, race, or gender. To provide this information, press officers from NCI’s Office of Media Relations turn to the Cancer Statistics Review, a report published by NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program.The CSR, updated just this morning with new incidence statistics, contains the most recent data available on incidence (the rate or number of new cases), mortality (deaths), survival, prevalence, and lifetime risk statistics for 27 cancers.
