The most recent year for which incidence and mortality data are available lags 2 to 4 years behind the current year due to the time required for data collection, compilation, quality control, and dissemination. Therefore, we projected the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in the United States in 2016 to provide an estimate of the contemporary cancer burden. The number of invasive cancer cases was estimated using a 3-step spatio-temporal model based on high-quality incidence data from 49 states and the District of Columbia representing approximately 94% population coverage (data were lacking for all years for Minnesota and for some years for other states). First, complete incidence counts were estimated for each county from 1998 through 2012 using geographic variations in sociodemographic and lifestyle factors, medical settings, and cancer screening behaviors as predictors of incidence.[19] Then these counts were adjusted for delays in cancer reporting and aggregated to obtain national- and state-level estimates. Finally, a temporal projection method (the vector autoregressive model) was applied to the last 15 years of data to estimate counts for 2016. This method cannot estimate numbers of basal cell or squamous cell skin cancers because data on the occurrence of these cancers are not required to be reported to cancer registries. For complete details of the case projection methodology, please refer to Zhu et al.[20]