Hispanic women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer at a 36% higher rate than White women, according to a new report released on Oct. 5, 2026, by the American Cancer Society (ACS). The same report found that Hispanic people have about double the rates of liver and stomach cancers compared with White people. ACS describes all three as infection-related cancers that are largely preventable, a finding that turns the numbers into a call for earlier action.
The report, Cancer Statistics for Hispanic/Latino People, 2026, estimates that 229,900 Hispanic people in the continental U.S. and Hawaii will be diagnosed with cancer this year and 54,200 will die from the disease. It was published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, the society's flagship journal, and uses incidence data through 2022 and mortality data from 2024.
