Cancer accounted for over 602,300 deaths in the U.S. in the 2020 calendar year.  In the six-state Far Western U.S., there were almost 89,900 cancer deaths that year.   Consistent with a pattern seen nationally, the cancer death rate for men in the Far Western states was higher than it was for women.  That said, the cancer death rate for both genders in the Far West was lower than the overall national average death rate from cancer in 2020.  That result was consistent with the fact that the Far Western U.S. had the nation's third-lowest regional cancer death rate in 2020. A closer review of data from the National Center for Health Statistics reveals the following details about male vs. female cancer death rates in the Far Western U.S.:

Male vs. Female Cancer Death Rates in the Far Western U.S.

	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
Regionwide	89,869	56,579,620	158.8
Male	47,221	28,192,091	167.5
Female	42,648	28,387,529	150.2
Nationwide	602,350	329,484,123	182.8
Male	317,731	162,256,202	195.8
Female	284,619	167,227,921	170.2

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

Report Period: 2020

States in Region:  Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington

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 March 4, 2023