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(Des Moines, IA) -- Polk County has a higher rate of new cancer cases than any other Iowa County and far exceeds the national average.
New data from the Iowa Cancer Registry shows for every 100-thousand Polk County residents, 26-hundred are diagnosed with cancer each year.
That's compared to the national average of 445.
Breast, prostate, lung, colorectal, and endometrial cancers are the top five in the county.
The Harkin Institute is researching environmental risk factors in Polk county.
The full report from the Iowa Cancer Registry is here.