Vulvar cancer causes less than 1% of all cancer cases and deaths but around 6% of all gynecologic cancers diagnosed in the UK. Around 1,200 women were diagnosed with the disease in 2011, and 400 women died in 2012.[26] Vulvar cancer causes about 0. 6% of all cancer cases[27] but 5% of gynecologic cancers in the United States.[28] About 4900 cases are diagnosed each year in the United States.[29]