{"entity":{"id":"paper-jemal-cancer-statistics-2009-cacancer-2009","kind":"paper","name":"Jemal 2009: Cancer statistics, 2009","aka":[],"tldr":"The American Cancer Society's 2009 report projected about 1.48 million new US cancer cases and showed incidence now falling in both sexes, with lung, prostate, colorectal and breast cancers driving most of the decline in deaths.","summary":"Jemal and colleagues projected 1,479,350 new cancer cases and 562,340 cancer deaths in the United States for 2009. Overall incidence was falling in men (1.8 percent a year from 2001 to 2005) and women (0.6 percent a year from 1998 to 2005), largely through the big sites: lung, prostate and colorectal cancer in men, breast and colorectal cancer in women. Death rates had fallen 19.2 percent in men between 1990 and 2005 and 11.4 percent in women between 1991 and 2005; declines in lung, prostate and colorectal cancer accounted for nearly 80 percent of the fall in men, and breast and colorectal cancer for 60 percent in women.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Full text (DOI)","url":"https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.20006"},{"label":"ACS Cancer Facts and Figures","url":"https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics.html"}],"tags":[],"related":["paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2023-cacancer-2023","paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":["incidence-vs-prevalence","mortality"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"notes":[],"journal":"CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians","year":2009,"doi":"10.3322/caac.20006","authors":"Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, Hao Y, Xu J, Thun MJ.","paperType":"observational","findings":["Projected 1,479,350 new cancer cases and 562,340 cancer deaths in the United States in 2009.","Incidence falling in men by 1.8 percent a year (2001 to 2005) and in women by 0.6 percent a year (1998 to 2005).","Death rates down 19.2 percent in men and 11.4 percent in women; lung, prostate and colorectal cancer explained nearly 80 percent of the fall in men."],"whatItMeans":"Showed the fall in deaths was concentrated in a handful of common cancers where smoking decline, screening and better treatment had taken hold.","caveats":["Projections rather than counts.","US-specific."],"changedPractice":false},"route":"/key-papers/paper-jemal-cancer-statistics-2009-cacancer-2009/","neighbours":{"paper":[{"id":"paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2023-cacancer-2023","kind":"paper","name":"Siegel 2023: Cancer statistics, 2023","route":"/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2023-cacancer-2023/"},{"id":"paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024","kind":"paper","name":"Siegel 2024: Cancer statistics, 2024, the American Cancer Society's annual US report","route":"/key-papers/paper-siegel-cancer-statistics-2024-cacancer-2024/"}],"term":[{"id":"incidence-vs-prevalence","kind":"term","name":"Incidence versus prevalence","route":"/terms/incidence-vs-prevalence/"},{"id":"mortality","kind":"term","name":"Mortality","route":"/terms/mortality/"}]}}