# Jemal 2007: Cancer statistics, 2007

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## TL;DR

The American Cancer Society's 2007 report projected about 1.44 million new US cancer cases and recorded a 13.6 percent fall in the overall cancer death rate between 1991 and 2004, even though the absolute number of deaths had only just begun to fall.

## Summary

Jemal and colleagues projected 1,444,920 new cancer cases and 559,650 cancer deaths in the United States for 2007, using incidence data to 2003 and mortality data to 2004. Age-standardised incidence for all cancers combined had been stable in men since 1995 while still rising 0.3 percent a year in women, and the combined cancer death rate had fallen 13.6 percent between 1991 and 2004. The report also broke incidence, mortality and survival down by site, sex, race and ethnicity and geography.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Journal: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
- Year: 2007
- DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.57.1.43
- Authors: Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, Murray T, Xu J, Thun MJ.
- Findings: Projected 1,444,920 new cancer cases and 559,650 cancer deaths in the United States in 2007.; Overall cancer death rate down 13.6 percent between 1991 and 2004.; Incidence stable in men since 1995 and rising 0.3 percent a year in women.
- What it means: One of the first editions to quantify the sustained fall in US cancer death rates that later reports tracked as deaths averted.
- Caveats: Projections rather than counts.; US-specific.

## Sources

- Full text (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3322/canjclin.57.1.43
- ACS Cancer Facts and Figures: https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics.html

## Connected records

- key papers: [Siegel 2023: Cancer statistics, 2023](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2023-cacancer-2023/), [Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024/)
- terms: [Incidence versus prevalence](https://onco.cc/terms/incidence-vs-prevalence/), [Mortality](https://onco.cc/terms/mortality/)

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