# Siegel 2012: Cancer statistics, 2012

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## TL;DR

The American Cancer Society's annual US report for 2012 projected about 1.64 million new cancer cases and reported that death rates had fallen steadily since the early 1990s in both men and women, sparing more than a million lives.

## Summary

Siegel, Naishadham and Jemal projected 1,638,910 new cancer cases and 577,190 cancer deaths in the United States for 2012. Cancer death rates had declined from their peaks by 22.9% in men (from 1990) and 15.3% in women (from 1991) to 2008, which the authors estimated had averted more than a million cancer deaths. The report noted the largest declines in lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer mortality and highlighted persistent differences by race and education.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Journal: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
- Year: 2012
- DOI: 10.3322/caac.20138
- Authors: Siegel R, Naishadham D, Jemal A.
- Findings: Projected 1,638,910 new cancer cases and 577,190 cancer deaths in the United States in 2012.; Death rates down 22.9% in men and 15.3% in women from their early-1990s peaks to 2008, more than a million deaths averted.; Largest mortality declines in lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancers.
- What it means: An early edition of the series that established the now-standard framing of deaths averted since the 1991 peak.
- Caveats: Projections rather than counts.; US-specific.

## Sources

- Full text (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.20138
- ACS Cancer Facts and Figures: https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics.html

## Connected records

- key papers: [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/)
- technologies: [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/)

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