Mortality from cancers of the colon and rectum is expected to be about 15.6 per 100,000 in 2017, with the highest rate in West Virginia and the lowest in Utah.
Approximately 50,260 colorectal cancer deaths are predicted for the year in the United States by the American Cancer Society in its Cancer Facts & Figures 2017, based on 2000-2014 data from the National Center for Health Statistics. With the population currently around 321 million, that works out to an expected death rate of 15.6 per 100,000 population. Doing a little more math produces death rates of 23.4 for West Virginia and 8.7 for Utah.
Utah had the lowest incidence rate over that time period for both men (36.1 per 100,000) and women (28.2 per 100,000), and Kentucky had the highest for both, with rates of 59.6 for men and 43.7 for women, the ACS said.