Abstract
This report provides, in tabular and graphic form, official federal statistics on cancer incidence and mortality for 2013 and trends for 1999-2013 as reported by CDC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Data in this report come from the United States Cancer Statistics (USCS) system (1), which includes cancer incidence data from population-based cancer registries that participate in CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program reported as of November 2015 and cancer mortality data from death certificate information reported to state vital statistics offices as of June 2015 and compiled into a national file for the entire United States by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) National Vital Statistics System (NVSS).