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The latest American Cancer Society's annual report on cancer statistics shows that the nation's overall death from cancer continues to fall, but in 2004 to 2005, the last period for which full data is available, actual deaths went up by over 5,000, prompting suggestions that two other significant trends, a growing and aging population, could be slowing the rate down.
The report, titled Cancer Statistics 2008, is to be published in the March/April issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and in the 57th edition of its companion publication, Cancer Facts & Figures 2008. The report breaks this down as follows:
The report, titled Cancer Statistics 2008, is to be published in the March/April issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and in the 57th edition of its companion publication, Cancer Facts & Figures 2008. The report breaks this down as follows:
- One in two new cases (50 per cent) of cancer in men will be for cancers of the prostate, lung and bronchus, and colon and rectum.
- Prostate cancer will account for 1 in 4 of all new cancer cases in men.
- In women, the three most commonly diagnosed cancers will be of the breast, lung and bronchus, and colon and rectum.
- These will account for half (50 per cent) of new cancers in women.
- Breast cancer will account for 1 in 4 new cancer cases in women.
- Lung cancer overtook breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women in 1987. It is expected to account for 26 per cent of all cancer deaths in women in 2008.
- Lung cancer rates are falling in men and appear to be leveling off in women, after increasing for several decades.
- Colorectal cancer rates went down from 1998 to 2004 in both men and women.
- Breast cancer rates in women went down by 3.5 per cent a year from 2001 to 2004, after increasing since 1980.
- In men under 40, leukemia is the most common fatal cancer.
- In men over 40, lung cancer is the most common fatal cancer.
- Leukemia is also the leading cause of cancer death in women under 20.
- Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women aged 20 to 59.
- Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women aged 60 and over.
- For children aged between 1 and 14, cancer is the second leading cause of death, after accidents.
- The 5-year relative survival among children for all cancers combined, went up from 58 per cent for cases diagnosed between 1975 to 1977 to 80 per cent for cases diagnosed between 1996 and 2003. just thought to share it with u....
