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We assessed the relationship between incidence and mortality for commonly diagnosed cancers in the USA.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Population-based observational study of US counties.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting and participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database was used to obtain incidence (2000\u20132016) and mortality (2002\u20132018) data for the 12 most commonly diagnosed non-haematologic cancers.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>County-level correlation between cancer incidence and mortality. Cancers were grouped into terciles based on the population-weighted correlation coefficient (r). We also examined the 10\u2009year risk of death, both from the diagnosed cancer and other causes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>County-level incidence and mortality were strongly correlated in some cancers, yet uncorrelated in others. Cancers in the high-correlation tercile (r range: 0.96 to 0.78) included lung, stomach, liver and pancreas. For patients with these cancers, the risk of death from the diagnosed cancer was &gt;4-times the risk of death from other causes. The moderate-correlation tercile (r: 0.75 to 0.58) included cancers of the colon, bladder, kidney and uterus. There was little or no relationship between incidence and mortality for cancers in the low-correlation tercile (r: 0.33 to \u22120.10): melanoma, prostate, breast and thyroid. 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