Jemal 2009: Cancer statistics, 2009

Jemal and colleagues projected 1,479,350 new cancer cases and 562,340 cancer deaths in the United States for 2009. Overall incidence was falling in men (1.8 percent a year from 2001 to 2005) and women (0.6 percent a year from 1998 to 2005), largely through the big sites: lung, prostate and colorectal cancer in men, breast and colorectal cancer in women. Death rates had fallen 19.2 percent in men between 1990 and 2005 and 11.4 percent in women between 1991 and 2005; declines in lung, prostate and colorectal cancer accounted for nearly 80 percent of the fall in men, and breast and colorectal cancer for 60 percent in women.