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Statistics About Endometrial Cancer

Some people use statistics to try to figure out their chance of getting cancer or being cured of it. But statistics only show what happens to large groups of people. Because no two women are like, you cannot use statistics to predict what might happen to you.

These US statistics are from the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2009.

  • This year about 42,160 women will be told they have uterine cancer. Most of these cases are endometrial cancer.

  • About 7,780 women will die of cancer of the uterus this year.

  • Over half of all endometrial cancer cases are diagnosed in women ages 55 to 74.

  • Cancer of the uterus is more common in white women, but African American women are more likely to die from this cancer.

  • More than 500,000 women are survivors of this cancer.

Online Medical Reviewer: Hoskins, William J. MD
Online Medical Reviewer: Jennifer Kanipe, RN, BSN
Online Medical Reviewer: Moore-Higgs, Giselle ARNP, MSN, AOCN
Online Medical Reviewer: Stump-Sutliff, Kim RN, MSN, AOCNS
Last Annual Review Date: 8/7/2009