# Siegel 2014: Cancer statistics, 2014

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## TL;DR

The American Cancer Society's 2014 report projected about 1.67 million new US cancer cases and estimated that two decades of falling death rates had avoided about 1.34 million cancer deaths, with the gains very unevenly spread by age, race and sex.

## Summary

Siegel, Ma, Zou and Jemal projected 1,665,540 new cancer cases and 585,720 cancer deaths in the United States for 2014. Over 2006 to 2010 incidence declined slightly in men (0.6 percent a year) and was stable in women, while death rates fell 1.8 percent a year in men and 1.4 percent a year in women. The combined death rate had fallen for two decades, from 215.1 per 100,000 in 1991 to 171.8 in 2010, a 20 percent decline that translated into about 1,340,400 deaths avoided (952,700 in men and 387,700 in women). The size of the decline ranged from none among white women aged 80 and over to 55 percent among black men aged 40 to 49.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Journal: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
- Year: 2014
- DOI: 10.3322/caac.21208
- Authors: Siegel R, Ma J, Zou Z, Jemal A.
- Findings: Projected 1,665,540 new cancer cases and 585,720 cancer deaths in the United States in 2014.; Combined death rate down from 215.1 per 100,000 in 1991 to 171.8 in 2010, about 1,340,400 deaths avoided.; Decline ranged from none in white women aged 80 and over to 55 percent in black men aged 40 to 49.
- What it means: Introduced the breakdown of progress by age, race and sex that exposed how unequally the decline in cancer deaths had been shared.
- Caveats: Projections rather than counts.; US-specific.

## Sources

- Full text (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21208
- 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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