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Stock photo. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU | AFP via Getty Images) CHARLY TRIBALLEAU | AFP via Getty Images Kevin Tampone | [email protected] Syracuse, N.
Y. — Two counties in the Syracuse area are in the top 10 in New York for rates of cancer, according to state Health Department data. Oswego County had the third-highest rate of cancer in the state at 545.
5 cases per 100,000 people in the five-year period covering 2017 to 2021. That’s the most recent data available from the New York State Cancer Registry. Cortland County was just behind Oswego at No.
4 statewide with a cancer rate of 541 cases per 100,000. Onondaga County ranked 28th statewide at 500.2 cases per 100,000.
You can see details of cancer rates in every New York county in the table below. You can search by entering a full or partial county name in the search box. If you can’t see the table, click here to open it in a new window .
The No. 1 county on the list was Niagara County, with a cancer rate of 549 per 100,000 people. Statewide, the cancer rate in the most recent data was 465 cases per 100,000.
Onondaga County and all four of its adjacent counties (Cayuga, Cortland, Madison and Oswego) all had cancer rates higher than the state average for the 2017-2021 period. Contact Kevin Tampone anytime: Email | Twitter | Facebook | 315-282-8598.
