Jemal 2007: Cancer statistics, 2007

Jemal and colleagues projected 1,444,920 new cancer cases and 559,650 cancer deaths in the United States for 2007, using incidence data to 2003 and mortality data to 2004. Age-standardised incidence for all cancers combined had been stable in men since 1995 while still rising 0.3 percent a year in women, and the combined cancer death rate had fallen 13.6 percent between 1991 and 2004. The report also broke incidence, mortality and survival down by site, sex, race and ethnicity and geography.