Declining Cnacer Deaths:
Overall cancer death rates have
been declining among children since the 1970s and among adults since the 1990s.
Death rates from all cancers combined decreased from 1999 to 2008, continuing a
decline that began in the early 1990s, among men and among women in most racial
and ethnic groups. Death rates decreased from 1999 to 2008 for most cancer
sites, including the 4 most common cancers (lung, colorectum, breast, and
prostate). The incidence of prostate and colorectal cancers also decreased from
1999 to 2008. Lung cancer incidence declined from 1999 to 2008 among men and
from 2004 to 2008 among women. Breast cancer incidence decreased from 1999 to
2004 but was stable from 2004 to 2008. Trends
in death rates for the most recent 10-year period (1999-2008) show an average
1.7% decrease per year among men and an average 1.3% decrease per year among
women as well as among children ages 0 to 19 years. Death rates decreased 1.5%
per year among children ages 0 to 14 years. Death rates for 11 of the 17 most
common cancers among men and for 14 of the 18 most common cancers among women
(lung, colon and rectum, kidney, brain, stomach, oral cavity, leukemia,
non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and myeloma among both men and women; prostate and larynx
among men; and breast, ovary, urinary bladder, esophagus, and gallbladder among
women) decreased during the most recent 10-year (1999-2008) and 5-year
(2004-2008) periods.
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