Urethral cancer epidemiology and demographics

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Urethral cancer is a rare disease that tends to affect African American individuals. The incidence is approximately 0.43 per 100,000 in the United States for men, and approximately 0.15 per 100,000 for women.

Epidemiology and Demographics

Incidence

  • Urethral cancer is rare.[1]
  • The annual incidence rates in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database over the period from 1973 to 2002 in the United States for men and for women were 4.3 and 1.5 per million, respectively, with downward trends over the three decades.
  • The incidence was twice as high in African Americans as in whites (5 million vs. 2.5 per million).

Gender

  • Men are more commonly affected with urethral cancer than women.

Race

  • Urethral cancer usually affects African American individuals.

References

  1. National Cancer Institute. Physician Data Query Database 2015. http://www.cancer.gov/publications/pdq