Mortality from non-Hodgkin lymphoma is expected to be about 6.1 per 100,000 population in 2018, with the highest rate in Maine and West Virginia and the lowest in Utah.
in its Cancer Facts & Figures 2018, based on analysis of 2001-2015 data from the National Center for Health Statistics. That figure is down from the 20,140 predicted for 2017, as the trend in the death rate since 2006 has been a decline of about 2% per year.
Nationally, death rates for NHL were 7.4 per 100,000 for males and 4.5 for females for 2011-2015, and incidence rates were 22.9 per 100,000 for males and 15.8 for females for 2010-2014, the ACS reported.
Over time, the relative survival rate for NHL has gone from 47% in 1975-1977 to 51% in 1987-1989 to 73% in 2007-2013, although there is some disparity between whites, whose respective rates are 47%, 51%, and 74%, and blacks, who have rates of 49%, 46%, and 67%, respectively, the ACS said.