Breadcrumb Home UI study expects 17,000 cases of cancer in Iowa in 2017 Monday, March 27, 2017 http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/health/more-cancer-projected-in-iowa-thi… This year's annual Cancer in Iowa study conducted by the UI College of Public Health finds that 17,400 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in Iowa in 2017, and 6,200 Iowans will die from the disease.