In 2020, the Mid-Eastern U.S. region, which encompasses five states and the District of Columbia, recorded 90,410 deaths that were attributed to cancer, or about 15% of the 602,350 cancer deaths that year in the entire United States.  At 185.4 deaths per 100,000 population, the Mid-Eastern U.S. had a cancer death rate in 2020 that was 1.4% higher than the national average.  These regional results were, however, skewed by particularly high cancer death rates in Delaware and Pennsylvania, two states that ranked amongst the ten states nationally with the worst cancer death rates.  Other parts of the Mid-Eastern region recorded cancer death rates that were better than the national average.  A closer examination of state-level data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics reveals the following details about cancer death rates in the Mid-Eastern U.S. region:

Cancer Death Rates in the Mid-Eastern U.S.

State	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Delaware	2,141	986,809	217.0
District of Columbia	984	712,816	138.0
Maryland	10,799	6,055,802	178.3
New Jersey	15,576	8,882,371	175.4
New York	32,955	19,336,776	170.4
Pennsylvania	27,955	12,783,254	218.7
Region	90,410	48,757,828	185.4
U.S.	602,350	329,484,123	182.8

(*) number of cancer deaths per 100,000 population

Report Period: 2020

Source: CDC Wonder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2020 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2021. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2020, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on June 25, 2022