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| After several decades of steady increases, the U.S. cancer death rate stabilized from 1990 to 1993 and has significantly declined from 1993 to 2005. | In 2005, cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, and colon/rectum accounted for more than half of all cancer deaths in the United States. Lung cancer alone claimed more than one-fourth of the lives lost to cancer. According to American Cancer Society projections, in 2008 there were 565,650 cancer deaths overall, including 161,840 deaths from lung cancer; 49,960 from cancers of the colon/rectum; 40,930 from female breast cancer; 34,290 deaths from cancer of the pancreas (replacing prostate cancer as the fourth leading cause) and 28,660 from prostate cancer. Cancer mortality usually is measured as the annual number of deaths from cancer for every 100,000 people, adjusted to a standard population. Back to Top The number of cancer deaths per 100,000 people per year, age-adjusted to a U.S. 2000 standard population. Back to Top – 1975–2005 Back to Top All sites combined: Death rates increased through 1990, then stabilized until 1993 and fell from 1993 through 2005
Colorectal cancer: Death rates have been falling since 1975
Female breast cancer: Death rates have been falling since 1990
Lung cancer: Death rates have been falling since 1995 due to declines in lung cancer in men and plateau of death rates in women
Prostate cancer: Death rates have been falling since 1994 Back to Top In 2005, the death rate for all cancers was 184.0 cancer deaths per 100,000 people per year. Back to Top Reduce the overall cancer death rate to 158.6 cancer deaths per 100,000 people per year by 2010. Back to Top Blacks have the highest overall rates for cancer deaths, followed by Whites. Back to Top Although overall death rates are on the decline, deaths from some cancers, such as esophageal, liver, and thyroid cancers, are increasing. An ongoing challenge for the United States is to find new and better ways to reduce and eliminate disparities in cancer death rates among different populations of Americans. Back to Top Back to Top
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