U.S. Lung Cancer Statistics

• In the U.S. in 2020:
• 197,453 new lung cancers were reported
• 136,084 people died from lung cancer
• Males had higher rates of getting and dying from lung cancer than females
• From 2016-2020, 45% of all lung cancers were diagnosed at a distant stage
• 27% were found at the localized stage
• 23% were found at the regional stage
• 5% were identified as unknown
• 26% of lung cancer patients who were diagnosed from 2013 to 2019 had not died from their cancer 5 years later
• Among people diagnosed with lung cancer from 2015 to 2019, 425,015 were still alive on January 1, 2020
• 2020 cancer incidence was lower than in 2019, and this may have been because of the effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on cancer screening, diagnosis, and reporting to some central cancer registries in 2020

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/about/stat-bites/stat-bite-lung.htm