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Last Updated: Oct 29, 2008 - 11:04:25 AM |
WEDNESDAY FEB 20, 2008 (Foodconsumer.org) -- The American Cancer Society released Wednesday a 2008 report on cancer incidence and mortality in the United States saying the cancer incidence rates are on the decline, but the mortality remains high.
The following are the key findings and opinions found in the report;
About 1,437,180 new cancer cases are to be diagnosed in 2008 and this figure does not include carcinoma in situ or noninvasive cancer of any site except urinary bladder cancer and does not include basal and squamous cell skin cancers. For basal and squamous cell skin cancers alone, more than 1 million cases are expected this year.
About 565,650 people are expected to die of cancer in 2008. Cancer is the second largest killer in the US, behind only heart disease. One in every four death is due to cancer.
Sixty six percent of cancer patients will live at least 5 years after diagnosis compared to 50 percent in 1975 to 1977. The Society attributes this drop to the use of screening to find cancer at its early stages and also improvements in treatment. Cancer at its early stage is easier to treat and patients have a better chance to live 5 years after diagnosis.
In men, the rates of deaths from lung and bronchus cancers and prostate cancer had been on the sharp decline from 1990 through 2004 while the rates of deaths from pancreatic cancer and leukemia had remained unchanged during the same period. Colon and rectum cancers were also on a moderately sharp decline while deaths from liver cancer had slightly increased.
In women, deaths from lung and bronchus cancers had not changed much between 1990 and 2004 while deaths from cancers in the uterus and ovaries and stomach dropped slightly. Mortality rates for colon and rectum cancers and breast cancer had a moderate decrease.
An estimated 10.8 million Americans with a history of cancer who may or may not have been cancer-free were alive in Jan 2004, according to the National Institutes of health.
The overall costs of cancer in 2007 were estimated at $219 billion, according to the NIH estimate.
The American Cancer Society says about 5% of all cancers are strongly hereditary suggesting other adjustable environmental risk factors are responsible for the rest.
Overall cancer incidence in the US during 2002 to 2004 was 557.8 per 100,000 for men and 413.1 per 100,000 for women. The incidence of breast cancer was 125.3 per 100,000 while the prostate cancer incidence was 160.8 per 100,000.
The overall mortality of cancer during 2002 to 2004 in the US was 238.7 per 100,000 for men and 162.2 per 100,000 for women. The mortality rate was 25.5 per 100,000 for breast cancer and 27.9 per 100,000 for prostate cancer.
For more information, read the whole report at Cancer facts and Figures 2008
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