# Siegel 2017: Cancer statistics, 2017

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## TL;DR

The American Cancer Society's annual US report for 2017 projected about 1.69 million new cancer cases and recorded a cancer death rate 25% below its 1991 peak.

## Summary

Siegel and colleagues projected 1,688,780 new cancer cases and 600,920 cancer deaths in the United States for 2017. The cancer death rate had fallen 25% from its 1991 peak to 2014, which the authors translated into about 2.1 million fewer cancer deaths than if rates had stayed at the peak. The report highlighted that the gender gap in cancer incidence had narrowed and that the racial gap in mortality had shrunk substantially since the early 1990s.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Journal: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
- Year: 2017
- DOI: 10.3322/caac.21387
- Authors: Siegel RL, Miller KD, Jemal A.
- Findings: Projected 1,688,780 new cancer cases and 600,920 cancer deaths in the United States in 2017.; Cancer death rate down 25% from 1991 to 2014, about 2.1 million deaths averted.
- What it means: One of the most cited editions of the series, used as the reference for US cancer numbers in the mid-2010s.
- Caveats: Projections rather than counts; registrations arrive years later.; US-specific.

## Sources

- Full text (DOI): https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21387
- 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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