Preventing Cancer
You can lower your risk for many kinds of cancer with screening tests, vaccines, and healthy choices.
Data and Statistics
Explore U.S. Cancer Statistics, the official federal cancer statistics on the entire United States.
Survivors and Caregivers
Information for cancer survivors, their caregivers, and health care providers, plus survivor stories.
Policies and Practices
Ways to prevent and control cancer linked to lack of physical activity, alcohol, indoor tanning, radon, and tobacco use.
Kinds of Cancer
Basic information, statistics, and what CDC is doing about some of the most common kinds of cancer in the United States.
What’s New?
- U.S. Cancer Statistics data brief: Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer, United States—2006–2015
- Colorectal cancer state screening profiles
- Lung Cancer Awareness
- Blog post: Men, Let’s Look at Our Culture to Understand and Improve Our Health
- Provider Education for Mental Health Care of Cancer Survivors
- Blog post: Be Informed. Be Empowered.
- Lung cancer information for health care providers
- Rates of Children and Teens Getting Cancer by State or Region
- My Motivated Moment breast cancer podcasts
- Video: Should I Get Tested for Prostate Cancer?
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About CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control
Learn about our recent milestones, research, programs, and partnerships, as well as our leaders and featured scientists. -
Resource Library
Information about cancer in sharable formats, including videos, podcasts, print materials, and infographics.
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Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients
Cancer patients who are treated with chemotherapy have a high risk of getting infections when their white blood cell count is low. -
Cancer, the Flu, and You
Living with cancer increases your risk for complications from influenza (“the flu”). Learn about special considerations for cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. -
HPV and Cancer
Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes about 34,000 cancers each year, including most cervical cancers and several other kinds of cancer. -
Health Disparities in Cancer
Some groups of people are more affected by cancer than others. CDC monitors trends in cancer cases and deaths.
CDC’s Latest Cancer Research
- Long-term survivorship care after cancer treatment
- Trends in liver cancer mortality in the United States: Dual burden among foreign- and U.S.-born persons
- Lung cancer screening inconsistent with U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations
- Communicating the financial burden of treatment with patients
- Page last reviewed: December 3, 2018
- Page last updated: December 3, 2018
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