Siegel 2014: Cancer statistics, 2014

Siegel, Ma, Zou and Jemal projected 1,665,540 new cancer cases and 585,720 cancer deaths in the United States for 2014. Over 2006 to 2010 incidence declined slightly in men (0.6 percent a year) and was stable in women, while death rates fell 1.8 percent a year in men and 1.4 percent a year in women. The combined death rate had fallen for two decades, from 215.1 per 100,000 in 1991 to 171.8 in 2010, a 20 percent decline that translated into about 1,340,400 deaths avoided (952,700 in men and 387,700 in women). The size of the decline ranged from none among white women aged 80 and over to 55 percent among black men aged 40 to 49.