Table 2.

Annualized oral and lung cancer prevalence (number of cases per 100,000 population).

	Federated States of Micronesia:				Republic of the Marshall Islands	Republic of Belau
	Yap	Kosrae	Pohnpei	Chuuk
Oral cancer (age-adjusted to the US population)	31.8	13.1	7.7	4.2	16.2	16.1
Oral cancer (age-adjusted to the WHO world standard population)	22.1	7.9	6.2	3.8	12.6	12.4
Lung cancer (age-adjusted to the US population)	53.7	8.6	28.4	32.5	52.7	46.5
Lung cancer (age-adjusted to the WHO world standard population)	39.6	8.7	21.3	3.8	41.1	34.6

Data Sources: Katz, Palafox, Johnson et al.²⁶