好消息是:美國癌症的死亡率在下降(2000-2008年)

Report Highlights

• The overall rate of new cancer diagnoses, also known as incidence, among men decreased by an average of 0.6% per year between 2004 and 2008.
• Overall cancer incidence rates among women decreased 0.5% per year from 1998 to 2006; rates remained level from 2006 through 2008.
• Lung cancer death rates among women decreased for the second year in a row. Lung cancer death rates in men have been decreasing since the early 1990s.
• Colorectal cancer incidence rates decreased among men and women from 1999 through 2008.
• Breast cancer incidence rates among women decreased from 1999 through 2004, and remained level from 2004 through 2008.
• Incidence rates of melanoma and pancreas, kidney, thyroid, and liver cancers increased from 1999 through 2008.