Annual Report to the Nation on Cancer Trends: Cancer Deaths Continue to Fall, But We Can Do Better

This report comes out every year. It is a summation of what we know about the trends in incidence rates for the most common cancers in the United States among both men and women as well as the trends in death rates from those cancers that lead to the highest mortality in the general population as well as specific ethnic groups. It is in a real sense a report card on our progress, which in large part is good but in a number of cancers, not so good. The good news is what we have come to expect: since the year 2000, the overall cancer death rates have continued to decline 1.8% per year in men, 1.4% in women and 0.6% per year in children. That may not sound like much, but when you consider the fact that this is an average change seen every year, those numbers begin to add up. Overall cancer incidence rates during that same time frame decreased 0.6% a year among men, and remained stable in women. Unfortunately, the incidence rates for childhood cancer increased 0.6% a year from 2000 through 2009. When it comes to incidence, we continue to see certain cancers diagnosed less frequently. In men, 5 out of 17 of the most common cancers-including prostate cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer and stomach cancer-were diagnosed less often. Unfortunately, in men, other cancers increased in frequency including cancers of the kidney, pancreas, liver, thyroid, melanoma, and myeloma. For women, cancers of the lung, colon and rectum, bladder, cervix, oral cavity and pharynx, ovary and stomach...
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