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Appendix B: Mortality Statistics
Pages 297-304

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... Heart disease and cancer each accounted for close to one-fourth of deaths in women in the United States in 2006. They were the leading causes of death in US women residents and in US residents overall in 2006, the year on which most recent data are available.
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From page 298...
... Lung cancer and colorectal cancer were estimated to be the leading and third-leading causes of cancer deaths in both women and men in 2008 on the basis of projections from trends in cancer deaths in previous years (ACS, 2008) .1 The second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women and men was 1 Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year on the basis of the most recent data on cancer in cidence, mortality, and survival from the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries and mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
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From page 299...
... Lung, breast, and colorectal cancer combined were expected to account for over half the cancer deaths in women in 2008: lung cancer, 26.2%, breast cancer, 14.9%, and colorec tal cancer, 9.5%. Pancreatic cancer and ovarian cancer were also estimated to be major causes of cancer deaths in women in 2008.
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From page 300...
... aChronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and allied conditions, 1989–1998.
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From page 301...
... There are also a number of racial and ethnic disparities in causes of cancer deaths in women. Lung, breast, and colorectal cancer were the three leading TABLE B-4 10 Leading Causes of Female Death by Race or Ethnicity, 2006 Estimated Percentage (Rank)
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From page 302...
... For example, about 1.2% of cancer deaths in nonHispanic white women in 2006 were due to cervical cancer compared with 2.1% in American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.5% in non-Hispanic black, 2.6% in Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.6% in Hispanic women. The highest proportion of uterine-cancer deaths was in non-Hispanic black women (4% of cancer deaths vs 2.7% overall)
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... 2009a. WISQARS Leading Causes of Death Reports, –00.
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