A 2025 Gallup analysis found that nearly one in ten U.S. adults reported having been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime.
January 01, 2025
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Gallup lifetime self-reported cancer diagnosis prevalence from its 2024-2025 survey averages.
Gallup reported that the share of U.S. adults aged 65 and older who had been diagnosed with cancer rose by 3.4 percentage points between the 2008-2009 period and 2024-2025, reaching 21.5% in 2024-2025.
January 01, 2025
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Age-specific lifetime diagnosis rates from Gallup's 2008-2009 baseline compared with 2024-2025 estimates.
Gallup reported that in the 2024-2025 period, 9.8% of men and 9.6% of women had been told by a clinician that they had cancer, and that the share of men with a lifetime cancer diagnosis increased by 3.6 percentage points since the 2008-2009 period.
January 01, 2025
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Sex-disaggregated lifetime diagnosis rates and change since the 2008-2009 baseline from Gallup's survey averages.
Gallup's two-year average data showed that lifetime cancer diagnosis rates among U.S. adults hovered at or just above 7% during the 2008-2009 through 2014-2015 periods.
January 01, 2014
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Historical baseline levels in Gallup's repeated surveys of U.S. adults.