# Jemal 2008: Cancer statistics, 2008

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## TL;DR

The American Cancer Society's 2008 report projected about 1.44 million new US cancer cases and estimated that falling death rates since the early 1990s had already avoided more than half a million cancer deaths.

## Summary

Jemal and colleagues projected 1,437,180 new cancer cases and 565,650 cancer deaths in the United States for 2008. Incidence rates for all sites combined had stabilised in men from 1995 and in women from 1999, and death rates had fallen 18.4 percent in men since 1990 and 10.5 percent in women since 1991, which the authors translated into more than half a million deaths avoided. The report added education level to its breakdowns 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: 2008
- DOI: 10.3322/ca.2007.0010
- Authors: Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, Hao Y, Xu J, Murray T, Thun MJ.
- Findings: Projected 1,437,180 new cancer cases and 565,650 cancer deaths in the United States in 2008.; Death rates down 18.4 percent in men from 1990 and 10.5 percent in women from 1991, to 2004.; More than half a million cancer deaths avoided over that period.
- What it means: The first edition to express progress as deaths avoided, the framing every later report has kept.
- Caveats: Projections rather than counts.; US-specific.

## Sources

- Full text (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3322/ca.2007.0010
- 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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