Cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx were among the top 10 cancer sites for U.S. males from 2007 to 2011, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Oral and oropharyngeal cancers ranked eighth in the five-year period, the "1999-2011 Cancer Incidence and Mortality Data" Web-based report shows. Prostate, lung, colon, urinary, and melanomas were the primary cancer sites for U.S. males in the same period.
The report provides state-specific and regional data for cancer cases diagnosed and cancer deaths that occurred from 1999 to 2011 and for 2007 to 2011 combined. The report contains combined data from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program. Mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System of CDC's National Center for Health Statistics also included.
