Jemal 2008: Cancer statistics, 2008

Jemal and colleagues projected 1,437,180 new cancer cases and 565,650 cancer deaths in the United States for 2008. Incidence rates for all sites combined had stabilised in men from 1995 and in women from 1999, and death rates had fallen 18.4 percent in men since 1990 and 10.5 percent in women since 1991, which the authors translated into more than half a million deaths avoided. The report added education level to its breakdowns by site, sex, race and ethnicity and geography.