The American Cancer Society details cancer rates in New York State, county by county with its first "Cancer Burden in New York State" report released Mon., July 23, at acscan.org/ny. Prostate cancer is New York’s most common cancer with almost 16,000 men diagnosed in 2011. Female breast cancer (15,710 new cases) and lung and bronchus cancers, with 14,200 new cases, were the second and third most frequent, respectively. There were also 9,480 new cases of colon and rectum cancer. Locally, the results:
• Greene 19.4 percent above state average
• Columbia .7 percent below state average
• Rensselear 16.6 percent above state average
• Albany 7.2 percent above state average
• Schoharie 1.4 percent below state average
• Delaware 1.8 percent below state average
• Ulster 5.3 percent above state average
• Dutchess .3 below state average