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This week the ACS released its annual report on Cancer Facts and Figures in the U.S. The journal Cancer analyzes and considers the data in a helpful article. Some of the key and mainly positive findings have been covered elsewhere:
Between 1990 and 2008, death rates from cancer in the U.S. declined rather steadily, overall, by 22.9% in men and 15.3% in women. More recently, between 2004 and 2008, the incidence of cancer has declined slightly in men (0.6% per year) but it’s been stable in women. During this most recent period for which complete data are available, the overall death rates continued to drop – by 1.8% in men and by 1.6% per year in women.
This is generally good news. Still, the total number of people in the U.S. who will receive a new cancer diagnosis in 2012 is estimated at 1,638,910. Some 577,190 people will
See more ACS Issues Annual Report on Cancer Stats: Some Key Findings, and Notes on Survivorship
