{"entity":{"id":"paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2015-cacancer-2015","kind":"paper","name":"Siegel 2015: Cancer statistics, 2015","aka":[],"tldr":"The American Cancer Society's annual US report for 2015 projected about 1.66 million new cancer cases and recorded a cancer death rate 22% below its 1991 peak, the year the series began reporting deaths averted in the millions.","summary":"Siegel and colleagues projected 1,658,370 new cancer cases and 589,430 cancer deaths in the United States for 2015. The cancer death rate had fallen 22% from its 1991 peak to 2011, which the authors translated into about 1.5 million fewer cancer deaths than if rates had stayed at the peak.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Full text (DOI)","url":"https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21254"},{"label":"ACS Cancer Facts and Figures","url":"https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics.html"}],"tags":[],"related":["paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":["incidence-vs-prevalence","mortality"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians","year":2015,"doi":"10.3322/caac.21254","authors":"Siegel RL, Miller KD, Jemal A.","paperType":"observational","findings":["Projected 1,658,370 new cancer cases and 589,430 cancer deaths in the United States in 2015.","Cancer death rate down 22% from 1991 to 2011, about 1.5 million deaths averted."],"whatItMeans":"This edition marked twenty years of falling US cancer mortality and is cited for the estimate that more than 1.5 million deaths had been averted.","caveats":["Projections rather than counts; registrations arrive years later.","US-specific."],"changedPractice":false},"route":"/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2015-cacancer-2015/","neighbours":{"paper":[{"id":"paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024","kind":"paper","name":"Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report","route":"/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024/"}],"term":[{"id":"incidence-vs-prevalence","kind":"term","name":"Incidence versus prevalence","route":"/terms/incidence-vs-prevalence/"},{"id":"mortality","kind":"term","name":"Mortality","route":"/terms/mortality/"}],"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}]}}