Rapid Review·General Pathology
Select any text to highlight it or add a note.
NEOPLASIA
T2High yieldCancer Epidemiology
P218
Focus on
The raw incidence and mortality lists, and the flip between them.
Key takeaways
Framing facts
Two framing facts before the lists
- Skin cancer (basal > squamous >> melanoma) is the most common cancer overall and is excluded from the tables below.
- Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease.
Most common vs most deadly
| Males | Females | Children (0 to 14) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incidence | 1. Prostate 2. Lung 3. Colon/rectum | 1. Breast 2. Lung 3. Colon/rectum | 1. Leukemia 2. CNS 3. Neuroblastoma |
| Mortality | 1. Lung 2. Prostate 3. Colon/rectum | 1. Lung 2. Breast 3. Colon/rectum | 1. Leukemia 2. CNS 3. Neuroblastoma |
One trend to keep
lung cancer incidence has decreased in males but has not changed significantly in females.Which cancer causes the most cancer deaths in US women, and which is the most commonly diagnosed?
Lung cancer causes the most deaths; breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed (skin cancer excluded).
How it's tested
The incidence and mortality flip is the classic trick: prostate and breast are the most common cancers by incidence, but LUNG is the leading cancer killer in BOTH sexes, because lung cancer is far more lethal per case.
Go deeper
First Aid "Cancer epidemiology"; Pathoma Ch. 3. Anchor "most common vs most deadly" (incidence: prostate/breast #1; mortality: lung #1 in both sexes) and skin cancer sitting outside the tables entirely.
Flashcards for this page
Card 1 of 5 · try-out only, nothing is saved
1 → (...) cancer
2 → (...) cancer
3 → (...) cancer
You just read one page of 944
The rest of Step 1, written exactly like this.
Rapid Review is the reading layer of a full Step 1 platform: a schedule fitted to your exam date, flashcards for every page, and a mentor a message away.
Every Step 1 system
Written the same way: what to know, how it’s tested, where to go deeper.
A plan built to your exam date
Tell us when you sit, and the schedule fits the whole library and your question bank to it.
Flashcards for every page
Ready-made spaced-repetition decks linked to each topic, so nothing you read gets forgotten.
