You likely know the statistic: Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the country. It’s a data point that has come up, for example, amid the state’s ongoing fight for improved water quality. But ...

While the rest of the country’s cancer rates are falling, those in Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana and Kansas — known as the Corn Belt — are rising at an alarming rate, data shows. The ...

A county in Central New York had one of the highest rates of cancer in the state in a five-year period from 2018 to 2022. Oswego County had a cancer rate during that span of 544.2 cases per 100,000 ...

Iowa's age-adjusted rate of new cancer cases is second in the U.S., behind only Kentucky. Iowa is also one of just two states where the rate of new cancer cases is rising. Not every form of cancer is ...