Cancer is a common disease that has no single cause or simple cure. The lifetime risk of developing or dying from cancer is one out of three in the United States. In Oregon, approximately 20,000 people are newly diagnosed with an invasive cancer each year. As a state, Oregon works to reduce the number of people affected by cancer through cancer prevention, early detection and survivorship.
Each cancer case can take a long time to accurately diagnose, treat and report to the Oregon State Cancer Registry (OSCaR). To assure data quality, OSCaR only includes cancer cases in its reports 24 months after first diagnosis. Read Understanding OSCaR Data to learn about current methods used in the data analysis of cancer in Oregon.
Counts reported in the sites below include a "total" that may not add up to the male and female combined counts as there are other gender categories included. In addition, all the cancer sites reported include cancers that have spread beyond the layer of tissue of origin (i.e., invasive cancers) except for the urinary bladder, which includes both cancers confined to the original site (in situ) and those that spread beyond (invasive).
Due to confidentiality and data reliability concerns, OSCaR does not release cancer rates or case counts for geography below the county level. OSCaR also does not release aggregate case counts of less than 11 without review and approval by the Oregon Public Health Division. OSCaR regulations provide more detailed information regarding release of aggregate data; see OAR 333-010-0050 (5).
Below are data resources provided by the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Section (HPCDP) of the Public Health Division.