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When you hear the word cancer, what type of cancer comes to mind first?

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[CS16]  When you hear the word cancer, what type of cancer comes to mind first?

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Estimated U.S. Adult Population information
Survey Respondents information
  Response Number Percentage Sample
Responses
Sample
Percentage
1 Bladder cancer 286,002 0.1% 11 0.1%
2 Bone cancer 1,101,464 0.5% 33 0.4%
3 Breast cancer 66,004,596 31.6% 2,529 35.4%
4 Cervical cancer (Cancer of the cervix) 2,823,786 1.3% 92 1.2%
5 Colon cancer 13,182,040 6.3% 566 7.9%
6 Endometrial cancer (Cancer of the uterus) 703,002 0.3% 28 0.3%
7 Head and neck cancer 351,720 0.1% 4 0.0%
8 Hodgkin's lymphoma 208,058 0.0% 10 0.1%
9 Renal (Kidney) cancer 163,229 0.0% 7 0.0%
10 Leukemia/Blood cancer 3,140,014 1.5% 95 1.3%
11 Liver cancer 1,690,091 0.8% 52 0.7%
12 Lung cancer 56,574,321 27.1% 1,699 23.8%
13 Melanoma 2,513,355 1.2% 97 1.3%
14 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma 298,033 0.1% 12 0.1%
15 Oral cancer 194,940 0.0% 6 0.0%
16 Ovarian cancer 2,183,617 1.0% 70 0.9%
17 Pancreatic cancer 1,445,563 0.6% 55 0.7%
18 Pharyngeal (Throat) cancer 455,698 0.2% 21 0.2%
19 Prostate cancer 8,840,788 4.2% 306 4.2%
20 Rectal cancer 296,749 0.1% 7 0.0%
21 Other skin cancer 7,866,820 3.7% 253 3.5%
22 Stomach cancer 2,428,887 1.1% 78 1.0%
23 BRAIN 1,985,190 0.9% 56 0.7%
24 Other 23,459,182 11.2% 673 9.4%
98 Refused 239,940 0.1% 12 0.1%
99 Don't know 10,149,999 4.8% 356 4.9%
 
Total
- 100% 7,128 100%
Survey Notes:
HINTS 2007 Survey Instrument (English): PDF  
Who was asked:
All people in the survey  
Data collection method:
Phone, Mail
Question source:
Original to HINTS 2007. Provided by B. Hesse and R. Moser 
Dataset:
2007
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