Cancer Burden definition
Cancer Burden means the estimated increase in the occurrence of cancer cases in a population subject to an individual cancer risk of equal to or greater than one in one million resulting from exposure to toxic air contaminants.
Examples of Cancer Burden in a sentence
Cancer Burden of the Hispanic Population As previously mentioned, cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanics in the U.S. In 2018, it is estimated that 149,100 Hispanic individuals in the U.S. were diagnosed with cancer and 42,700 succumbed to the disease (USCS, 2016; ACS, 2018).