Recent Updates and Archive

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Recent Updates

For each measure in the report, the table below highlights the most recent year of data available for the measure and the date which the measure page in this report was updated. For a summary of corrections that may have been made to the individual measure pages, please see the Revision History.

Recent Updates to the Cancer Trends Progress Report
Measure Year of Most Recent Estimate Data Up To Date As Of
Prevention
Tobacco Use Initiation 2019 April 2022
Youth Tobacco Use 2018 April 2022
Adult Tobacco Use 2020 April 2022
Quitting Smoking 2020 April 2022
Evidence-based Cessation Aids 2019 April 2022
Clinicians' Advice to Quit Smoking 2019 April 2022
Fruit and Vegetable Consumption 2018 April 2022
Red Meat Consumption 2018 April 2022
Fat Consumption 2018 April 2022
Alcohol Consumption 2019 April 2022
Physical Activity 2020 April 2022
Weight 2018 April 2022
Sleep 2020 April 2022
Sun Protective Behavior 2020 April 2022
Indoor tanning 2019 April 2022
Sunburn 2020 April 2022
HPV Vaccination 2020 April 2022
Genetic Testing 2015 April 2022
Tobacco Company Marketing Expenditures 2020 April 2022
Medicaid Coverage of Tobacco Dependency Treatments 2020 April 2022
Secondhand Smoke Exposure 2018 April 2022
Smoke-free Home Rules 2019 April 2022
Smoke-free Workplace Rules and Laws
Smoke-free Workplace Rules 2019 April 2022
Indoor Air Laws 2021 April 2022
Arsenic Exposure 2018 April 2022
Benzene Exposure 2018 April 2022
Cadmium Exposure 2018 April 2022
Nitrate Exposure 2016 April 2022
Radon Exposure 2013 April 2022
Early Detection
Breast Cancer Screening 2019 April 2022
Cervical Cancer Screening 2019 April 2022
Colorectal Cancer Screening 2019 April 2022
Lung Cancer Screening 2015 April 2022
Prostate Cancer Screening 2018 April 2022
Diagnosis
Incidence 2019 October 2022
Stage at Diagnosis 2019 October 2022
Treatment
Bladder Cancer Treatment 2009 April 2022
Breast Cancer Treatment 2019 October 2022
Colorectal Cancer Treatment 2015 April 2022
Kidney Cancer Treatment 2019 October 2022
Lung Cancer Treatment 2018 April 2022
Melanoma of the Skin Treatment 2011 April 2022
Ovarian Cancer Treatment 2011 April 2022
Prostate Cancer Treatment 2008 April 2022
Life After Diagnosis
Financial Burden of Cancer Care 2020 April 2022
Survival 2014 October 2022
Cancer Survivors and Smoking 2020 April 2022
Cancer Survivors and Physical Activity 2020 April 2022
Cancer Survivors and Weight 2020 April 2022
End of Life
Mortality 2020 October 2022
Person-Years of Life Lost 2020 October 2022

Revision History

The revision history provides a timeline of when measure pages were updated as well as any corrections that were made to the content of the measure pages.

Date Revision
10/19/2022

The October 2022 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. The Incidence, Stage at Diagnosis, Survival, Breast Cancer Treatment and Kidney Cancer Treatment measure pages were updated to reflect SEER Incidence data through 2019. The Mortality and Years of Life Lost measure pages were updated to reflect NCHS mortality estimates through 2020.

4/13/2022

The April 2022 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. All measure pages with new available data have been updated. Please consult the table above for a full list.

New measures this year include Sleep, Melanoma of the Skin Treatment and Evidence-based Cessation Aids.

10/21/2021

The October 2021 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. The Mortality and Years of Life Lost measure pages were updated to reflect NCHS mortality estimates through 2019.

7/01/2021

The July 2021 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. All measure pages with new available data have been updated. Please consult the table above for a full list.

Where applicable, all measures have been updated to reflect the Healthy People 2030 targets .

11/09/2020

The November 2020 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. The Incidence, Stage at Diagnosis and Survival measure pages were updated to reflect SEER Incidence data through 2017. The Mortality and Years of Life Lost measure pages were updated to reflect NCHS mortality estimates through 2018.

3/31/2020

The March 2020 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. All measure pages with new available data have been updated. Please consult the table above for a full list.

New measures this year include E-cigarettes on the Youth Tobacco Use page and Colorectal Cancer on the Genetic Testing page.

9/5/2019

Graphs for e-cigarette usage among high school students were added to the Youth Tobacco Use measure page. The new graphs are based on data through 2018 from the National Youth Tobacco Survey.

4/24/2019

The graphs for Cost of Cancer Care by Cancer SIte and Cost of Cancer Care by Cancer Site and Phase of Care on the Financial Burden of Cancer Care measure page were incorrectly labelled as 'in billions of dollars'. These graphs and associated tables have been updated to have the correct label of 'in millions of dollars'.

2/28/2019

The February 2019 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. All measure pages with new available data have been updated. Please consult the table above for a full list.

New measures this year include Processed Meat Consumption, Genetic Testing, Long Term Trends in Adult Cigarette Use, Inorganic Arsenic Exposure, UV Exposure and Sun-Protective Behaviors By Sun Sensitivity, and Healthy Weight/Overweight estimates for Cancer Survivors

2/12/2018

The February 2018 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. All measure pages with new available data have been updated. Please consult the table above for a full list.

Measures for Lung Cancer Screening and Prostate Cancer Screening are new to this release.

8/23/2017

The Healthy People 2020 targets cited on the Fat Consumption measure page were updated to reflect the latest revision of the applicable Healthy People targets.

1/18/2017

The January 2017 Update to the Cancer Trends Progress Report was released. All measure pages with new available data have been updated. Please consult the table above for a full list.

11/4/2015
11/4/2015 The desired direction for complete nephrectomy was switched from rising to falling in all Kidney Cancer Treatment graphs.
3/18/2015 The Cancer Trends Progress Report was updated with a new website design and updated estimates for all measures.

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