2024 North Carolina Preliminary Cancer Incidence by Race

Per 100,000 Population

Age-Adjusted to the 2000 U.S. Standard Population

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Site All Whites All Minorities Total
Cases Rate Cases Rate Cases Rate
Oral Cavity 1,385 12.8 316 9.4 1,720 12.1
Esophagus 477 4.1 98 3.0 580 3.9
Stomach 537 5.0 260 7.9 807 5.8
Colon/Rectum 3,231 31.8 1,074 34.0 4,366 32.8
Liver 829 7.2 249 7.1 1,086 7.2
Gallbladder 83 0.8 40 1.2 123 0.9
Pancreas 1,355 12.0 483 15.0 1,847 12.8
Larynx 352 3.1 120 3.4 476 3.2
Lung/Bronchus 6,220 53.1 1,742 51.7 7,991 53.1
Bone 60 0.7 24 0.8 86 0.8
Soft Tissue 224 2.3 83 2.7 310 2.5
Melanoma (Skin) 3,963 38.5 29 1.0 4,102 30.3
Female Breast 8,290 157.5 2,854 156.8 11,267 159.2
Cervix Uteri 272 6.7 94 5.4 375 6.4
Corpus Uteri 1,254 22.6 514 26.8 1,791 23.9
Ovary 453 8.8 132 7.3 588 8.5
Prostate 6,287 112.3 2,713 178.1 9,108 128.6
Testes 192 5.5 37 2.5 235 4.7
Bladder 2,096 18.4 384 12.2 2,499 17.2
Kidney 1,832 17.5 617 18.6 2,462 17.9
Endocrine 997 11.6 322 10.1 1,333 11.2
Multiple Myeloma 532 4.7 393 12.3 929 6.5
Leukemia 1,185 11.8 316 10.2 1,516 11.6
Brain & Other CNS (Includes benign brain) 1,654 16.5 516 16.6 2,182 16.6
Brain & Other CNS (Excludes benign brain) 524 5.1 106 3.4 632 4.7
Hodgkins Disease 166 2.0 69 2.3 237 2.1
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma 1,644 15.2 345 10.9 2,009 14.5
Other Cancers 2,815 25.7 770 24.3 3,621 26.0
All Cancers 47,255 440.4 14,184 429.0 62,096 443.3

Produced by the NC Central Cancer Registry, 02/2026.

Updated 2024 Incidence rates will be available in January 2027.

Numbers are subject to change as files are updated.

*Cell sizes with fewer than five cases of cancer incidence are suppressed for confidentiality.

** Cancer incidence rates for cell sizes with fewer than 16 cases of cancer are suppressed as they are not stable.

Cases may not sum to totals due to unknown or other values.

Cancers of the urinary bladder and female breast include in situ cases.

Rates are calculated using vintage 2024 non-bridged population estimates based on the 2020 Census.