Overweight and obesity related cancer cases rate by cancer type U.S. 2014

The statistic shows the total age-adjusted rate of overweight and obesity-related invasive cancer cases in the United States in 2014, by cancer type. In that year, the rate of overweight and obesity related invasive breast cancer cases was 90.5 per 100,000 population.

Rate of overweight and obesity-related invasive cancer cases in the United States in 2014, by cancer type (per 100,000 population)

Characteristic	Rate per 100,000 population
Breast (in postmenopausal women)	92.6
Colon and Rectum	38.4
Endometrium (corpus uterus) (female only)	26.5
Kidney (renal cell)	15.4
Thyroid	14.4
Pancreas	12.6
Ovary (female only)	11
Liver	7
Multiple myeloma	6
Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus	2.9
Gastric cardia	2.1
Gallbladder	1.1
Meingioma	0.1

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Release date

2017

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United States

Survey time period

2005 and 2014

Supplementary notes

Age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population.
Overweight- and obesity-related cancers include adenocarcinoma of the esophagus; cancers of the breast [in postmenopausal women], colon and rectum, endometrium, gallbladder, gastric cardia, kidney, liver, ovary, pancreas, and thyroid; meningioma; and multiple myeloma.
Cancer incidence compiled from cancer registries that meet the data quality criteria for all invasive cancer sites combined (covering 100% of the U.S. population).

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