Cancer Mortality Still Declining, but Progress Threatened by Increasing Incidence as Projected New Cancer Cases Top Two Million for 2024
ATLANTA, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society (ACS) today released Cancer Statistics, 2024, the organization's annual report on cancer facts and trends. The new data show overall cancer mortality has continued to decline, resulting in over 4 million fewer deaths in the United States since 1991. However, this progress is jeopardized by increasing incidence for 6 of the top 10 cancers as the projected number of new diagnoses now tops 2 million (2,001,140) for the first time. These important findings are published today in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, alongside its consumer-friendly companion, Cancer Facts & Figures 2024, available on cancer.org.
- ATLANTA, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Cancer Society (ACS) today released Cancer Statistics, 2024, the organization's annual report on cancer facts and trends.
- The new data show overall cancer mortality has continued to decline, resulting in over 4 million fewer deaths in the United States since 1991.
- These important findings are published today in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians , alongside its consumer-friendly companion, Cancer Facts & Figures 2024, available on cancer.org.
- Mortality rates continue to increase by 2% per year for uterine corpus (endometrial) cancer, one of the few cancers with increasing mortality.