Jemal 2010: Cancer statistics, 2010

Jemal, Siegel, Xu and Ward projected 1,529,560 new cancer cases and 569,490 cancer deaths in the United States for 2010. Incidence was falling in men by 1.3 percent a year (2000 to 2006) and in women by 0.5 percent a year (1998 to 2006), driven by lung, prostate and colorectal cancer in men and breast and colorectal cancer in women, and the decrease was seen in every racial and ethnic group except American Indian and Alaska Native women, whose rates were stable. Death rates in men fell 21.0 percent between 1990 and 2006, with lung, prostate and colorectal cancer accounting for nearly 80 percent of the decline.