Table 2.
Site-specific present value of lifetime earnings (PVLE) among adults 20 and older in 2010
| Cancer site | PVLE, $US | Percentage of total cost | Deaths | PVLE/death, $US |
| Total (all cancers) | 142 373 887 175 | 100.00 | 657 005 | 216 701 |
| Lung and bronchus | 38 953 476 028 | 27.36 | 185 202 | 210 330 |
| Colon and rectum | 12 802 283 437 | 8.99 | 67 928 | 188 468 |
| Female breast | 10 878 840 020 | 7.64 | 48 776 | 223 037 |
| Pancreas | 7 058 015 604 | 4.96 | 35 474 | 198 963 |
| Leukemia | 5 879 620 378 | 4.13 | 24 459 | 240 387 |
| Brain and other nervous system | 5 851 151 373 | 4.11 | 14 894 | 392 853 |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 5 755 042 326 | 4.04 | 26 230 | 219 407 |
| Liver and intrahepatic bile duct | 4 638 204 280 | 3.26 | 16 041 | 289 147 |
| Ovary | 2 944 996 275 | 2.07 | 16 700 | 176 347 |
| Kidney and renal pelvis | 3 632 633 377 | 2.55 | 14 246 | 254 993 |
| Head and neck | 3 630 391 776 | 2.55 | 12 109 | 299 809 |
| Prostate | 3 537 601 571 | 2.48 | 37 819 | 93 540 |
| Stomach | 3 453 510 837 | 2.43 | 14 774 | 233 756 |
| Melanoma of the skin | 3 298 014 331 | 2.32 | 8871 | 371 775 |
| Urinary bladder | 1 976 965 144 | 1.39 | 14 794 | 133 633 |
| Cervix uteri | 1 807 797 110 | 1.27 | 4666 | 387 440 |
| Corpus and uterus | 1 101 322 676 | 0.77 | 7896 | 139 479 |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 828 691 758 | 0.58 | 1523 | 544 118 |
| Testis | 471 622 615 | 0.33 | 372 | 1 267 803 |
| All other sites | 23 873 706 259 | 16.77 | 104 231 | 229 046 |