{"entity":{"id":"paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2018-cacancer-2018","kind":"paper","name":"Siegel 2018: Cancer statistics, 2018","aka":[],"tldr":"The American Cancer Society's annual US report for 2018 projected about 1.74 million new cancer cases and recorded a cancer death rate 26% below its 1991 peak.","summary":"Siegel and colleagues projected 1,735,350 new cancer cases and 609,640 cancer deaths in the United States for 2018. The cancer death rate had fallen 26% from its 1991 peak to 2015, which the authors translated into about 2.4 million fewer cancer deaths than if rates had stayed at the peak. The report documented declining incidence in men, stable incidence in women, and a narrowing racial gap in mortality, while flagging rising incidence of liver cancer and of colorectal cancer in younger adults.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Full text (DOI)","url":"https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21442"},{"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":2018,"doi":"10.3322/caac.21442","authors":"Siegel RL, Miller KD, Jemal A.","paperType":"observational","findings":["Projected 1,735,350 new cancer cases and 609,640 cancer deaths in the United States in 2018.","Cancer death rate down 26% from 1991 to 2015, about 2.4 million deaths averted.","Rising incidence of liver cancer and of colorectal cancer in adults under 55 were flagged as concerns."],"whatItMeans":"This edition is widely cited for the early warning about colorectal cancer in younger adults, which later editions confirmed.","caveats":["Projections rather than counts; registrations arrive years later.","US-specific."],"changedPractice":false},"route":"/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2018-cacancer-2018/","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/"}]}}