Oral / Pharyngeal Cancer in South Carolina

Each year, more than 30,000 new cases of Oral / Pharyngeal cancers are diagnosed and about 8,000 deaths occur due to oral cancer in U.S. The five-year survival rate with these cancers is about 50 percent (1). Cancer incidence rate in males of all races for 2000 was 15.7 per 100,000 population. This rate was higher for blacks (18.2 per 100,000 population) than whites (15.3 per 100,000 population). In females cancer incidence in 2000 was much lower (6.0 per 100,000 population), with white females having higher rates (6.0 per 100,000 populations) than black females (5.1 per 100,000 populations).