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The American Cancer Society's annual US report for 2022 projected about 1.9 million new cancer cases and reported that the cancer death rate had fallen by about a third since 1991, with declines in lung cancer deaths accelerating as treatment improved.
Siegel, Miller, Fuchs and Jemal projected 1,918,030 new cancer cases and 609,360 cancer deaths in the United States for 2022. The cancer death rate had fallen 32% from 1991 to 2019, an estimated 3.5 million deaths averted. The report attributed the accelerating decline in lung cancer mortality to falling smoking, earlier diagnosis and better treatment, and it noted that the pandemic's effect on diagnoses was not yet visible in the data.
This edition documented the treatment-driven fall in lung cancer deaths that followed targeted therapy and immunotherapy, a rare case of new drugs visibly moving national mortality statistics.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.
Shares Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Cancer registries and population surveillance.