# Siegel 2015: Cancer statistics, 2015

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## TL;DR

The American Cancer Society's annual US report for 2015 projected about 1.66 million new cancer cases and recorded a cancer death rate 22% below its 1991 peak, the year the series began reporting deaths averted in the millions.

## Summary

Siegel and colleagues projected 1,658,370 new cancer cases and 589,430 cancer deaths in the United States for 2015. The cancer death rate had fallen 22% from its 1991 peak to 2011, which the authors translated into about 1.5 million fewer cancer deaths than if rates had stayed at the peak.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Journal: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
- Year: 2015
- DOI: 10.3322/caac.21254
- Authors: Siegel RL, Miller KD, Jemal A.
- Findings: Projected 1,658,370 new cancer cases and 589,430 cancer deaths in the United States in 2015.; Cancer death rate down 22% from 1991 to 2011, about 1.5 million deaths averted.
- What it means: This edition marked twenty years of falling US cancer mortality and is cited for the estimate that more than 1.5 million deaths had been averted.
- Caveats: Projections rather than counts; registrations arrive years later.; US-specific.

## Sources

- Full text (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21254
- 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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