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10/20/2026

Quality statistics don’t just count numbers, they adapt to anomalies! 📈 💪

This , we're highlighting a key methodological choice for cancer registry analysts utilizing cancer registry data for trends. When modeling recent cancer incidence, standard Joinpoint trend calculations should exclude 2020 data. Including the pandemic outlier distorts trend trajectories because the drop reflects temporary healthcare disruptions rather than a reduction in actual cancer burden. Conversely, mortality data includes 2020 because reported cancer deaths matched expected thresholds.

Rigorous adjustments like the 2020 incidence exclusion are exactly why the surveillance community trusts and as dependable resources for cancer control planning and . Dive into the data at https://bit.ly/3KQviWX or read more about the exclusion rationale in the 2025 Annual Report to the Nation.

09/29/2026

The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer (ARN) was just released in the journal Cancer. The ARN provides e most up-to-date and comprehensive trends in cancer incidence and mortality. This year the report was led by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and includes a special focus on our progress against lung cancer. Listen to the main author, Jane Henley, lead a discussion of the ARN:
https://cancerspeak.podbean.com/e/annual-report-to-the-nation-cancer-trends-and-progress-against-lung-cancer/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUfrE1wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMVEwTm5qUEdaN1VkZWM3TEhzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEew7NemfwdiYwKtNC-

What do the latest data tell us about cancer in the United States, and what’s behind the substantial progress against lung cancer over the past two decades? In this episode of CancerSpeak, Jane Henley, MSPH, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is joined by Ahmedin Jemal, DVM, ...

09/28/2026

September is .DYK that NAACCR member registries are critical to improving our understanding of childhood cancer? NAACCR's latest CiNA*Explorer release (June 2026) features the latest childhood cancer data by International Classification of Childhood Cancer (ICCC) site recode for standardized surveillance and public health tracking. Visit https://bit.ly/3KQviWX to start exploring today!

09/24/2026

Median/Multiple Outlier Testing (MMOT), developed by Dr. Huann-Sheng Chen of the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Research Program, can help central cancer registries improve data quality. Learn more here:

Central Cancer Registries continuously strive to improve data quality while ensuring that data are fit for research, surveillance, and cancer control activities. One promising approach is the use of Median/Multiple Outlier Testing (MMOT), a benchmarking method developed by Dr. Huann-Sheng Chen of th...

09/23/2026

The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer (ARN) was released September 22nd! The ARN is a collaborative report with the American Cancer Society (ACS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and NAACCR. This report was led by CDC and shows the rates of new cancer diagnoses remained stable among men and increased slightly (0.4%) for women during 2018 to 2022. Learn more in the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer: https://www.naaccr.org/annual-report-to-the-nation/

The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer - Each year scientists analyze the latest cancer rates to report on the most recent cancer trends in the US.

09/23/2026

ICYMI: NAACCR is hiring! Join the NAACCR family and work with standard-setters, registries, and other stakeholders from across North American to help us all prepare for the registry of the future. Check out the NAACCR job board for more info and qualifications: https://www.naaccr.org/job-opportunities/

09/22/2026

Blood cancer originates in the bone marrow or lymphatic system and includes lymphomas, leukemias, and myelomas. For cancer statistics visit https://bit.ly/3KQviWX.

09/16/2026

There’s more to cancer data than numbers. A diagnosis of cancer can be a life-changing event. Each year, 1.8 million US families are impacted by cancer, and Organizations like NAACCR are helping to ensure each one of them is counted. Every. Single. One. NAACCR's new My Cancer Counts project celebrates the power of population-based cancer data through the personal stories of the people behind it. Read the stories at https://narrative.naaccr.org/category/my-cancer-counts/.

09/14/2026

NAACCR is a collaborating agency with the National Cancer Institute's National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR). Find out more about the NCCR initiative and data products at the upcoming NAACCR Talk on September 14, 2026, 2-3:30pm ET. You can register for this and other NAACCR Talks and Epi 'Hours' at https://education.naaccr.org/freewebinars.

09/10/2026

As the coordinating center for the 💛National Childhood Cancer Registry💛, NAACCR is committed to promoting research for childhood cancer. Check out the latest NCCR updates at https://narrative.naaccr.org/?s=nccr.